Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...W. L. Jack Edwards, Dallas...
...first time since last September, when W. Averell Harriman was called home to be Secretary of Commerce, the U.S. had an Ambassador at the Court of St. James...
Burglarized: the Manhattan home of the Scripps-Howard papers' natty chief Roy W. Howard. Gone: two diamond bracelets, two diamond rings, some antique earrings-all the property of Howard's sister-in-law, who had left them with the Howards for safekeeping...
...boom" had other educators worried last week, but for a different reason: they were afraid it meant bankruptcy for their colleges. In School and Society, Colgate's P.R.O., W. Emerson Reck, reported the odd plight of U.S. colleges which are going into the red because they have too many customers...
...running the empire belongs to Holman, plus the eleven-man board of directors, most of whom came up as Holman did, stratum by stratum. The board chairman is Frank W. Abrams, 57, who started in Standard as a draftsman, came up the refining side. The executive committee of the board meets every day with Holman. It is the gusher which produces the policy on Standard's worldwide problems. It is Holman who refines the policy and distributes it. Actually, most of the day-by-day problems are sensibly solved by subsidiaries on the scene. This is partly...