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Word: virgil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ewing Virgil Neal was busily doing transient business in a magnificent Florentine suite on the Sherry-Netherland's 14th floor. His rise to wealth began, like that of Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon, on a farm 64 years ago at Sedalia, Mo. He still talks with a Midwestern inflection-bland, drawling, soothing. Sedalia he left when he was 24. going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From Sedalia | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...Long subsequently learned more facts about the limousine. It was a bullet-proof Maybach-Zeppelin. 22 ft. long, weighing four tons. with 12-gear shift and capable of 100 m.p.h. Its cost: $52.000. "Whose is it?'' he asked inside the hotel, and was given a card: E. VIRGIL NEAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From Sedalia | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...Brain Trust, whose resignation therefrom last fortnight was explained on the grounds that he was to serve the New Deal by editing a weekly magazine to be financed by the other three (TIME, Sept. 4). The practical brains of the group seemed to be a fifth figure, Board Chairman Virgil Vercingetorix McNitt of McNaught (McNitt) newspaper syndicate, onetime publisher of defunct McNaught's Magazine (like Plain Talk). But Mr. McNitt has been headed toward retirement lately, so last week when Messrs. Astor, Harriman & Moley announced further details about their weekly, observers concluded that if it did nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Today | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...hands by opportunely announcing plans for a 5? political weekly (as yet unnamed) and making the outgoing Assistant Secretary of State its editor. Other sponsors of the magazine were Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, NRA Consumer Board chief, her brother William Averell Harriman, Union Pacific board chairman, and Virgil V. McNitt of McNaught Syndicate who was to be executive editor. The weekly will support and expound the New Deal's politics and economics "in plain square-toed English,'"' according to Publisher Astor who said he and Dr. Moley had been concocting the magazine for months. Each week since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moley Out | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...great. From Nice, France last week came word that Headmaster Alfred Ernest Stearns, 61, was resigning because of ill health. Accepting regretfully the resignation, the trustees announced that Latin Instructor Charles Henry ("Charlie") Forbes, a short, chubby, popular classicist, possessor of one of the world's best Virgil libraries, would continue to serve as acting headmaster. And Andover men everywhere began speculating as to Andover's future growth under a new headmaster, one who it is hoped may also be chosen from the school's faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Changes for Andover | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

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