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...active management of Pillsburys. Recent resignation of Treasurer Alfred Fiske Pillsbury (70) left the family without an officer in the company (John Sargent Pillsbury is board chairman). Last week into the treasurership moved 230 Ibs. of fourth-generation Pillsbury. Phil Pillsbury quietly took over his father's old walnut chair and rolltop desk, settled into the Pillsbury executive groove...
...Dimple. Their elder son was Robert Alphonso Taft, born Sept. 8, 1889 in a Victorian house with colored-glass windows and scroll-trimmed porches in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills, on a bluff above the yellow Ohio River. Robert did not inherit the Taft dimple. His younger brother, Charles Phelps, got that, as well as his father's famous ability to chuckle along with people, make friends, have...
Billy Hull moonshined for awhile. Then, when he had his first $1,000, he bought a stand of fine poplars, logged them himself, snaked them down to the Obey River with a pair of steers. He became a timberman. From 1870 to 1900 millions of walnut and poplar logs went to the Nashville mills. Billy Hull, with his red tool box and little round cap without a bill, stayed with the lumber-rafting business long after Son Cord was a prominent politician...
...Tried out his new "throne," a handsomely carved, high-legged walnut chair specially designed to seat him at eye level with those who file by him at official handshaking functions. Terribly tiring are all White House receptions, but worst is the diplomatic reception, social high light of the Washington winter season. With the aid of the "Siege Perilous"-so dubbed by Washington wits-Franklin Roosevelt came paint-fresh through the exhausting ordeal...
Having said his say, John Lewis, still pale, sat all that afternoon out at his huge walnut desk in the palatial United Mine Workers building, drumming fingers steadily on his desk, speaking gruffly and seldom...