Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure group representing the general non-violent, non-"anti-anti" public, but particularly the large bourgeois-intellectual group in Boston who see the foreign films. The formation of such a group to agitate heatedly against banning through the influence of any group--Catholic, Jewish, or Watch and Ward Society--would best he organized through the university and college populations of the Boston area. But however it be done, it is the crying need of the day. Paul W. Friedrich...
Homework has run Victor A. Conrad, Ward Research associate in Climatology, afoul of the Cambridge housing ordinances...
...more informed circles, most people are optimistic. A few members of Harvard's Music Department are looking for-ward to Munch's arrival with frank relief. And while this attitude may not be characteristic of most members of the Department, it is certain that almost all those who have heard Munch conduct predict a great deal of fresh, interesting music for Boston audiences next year...
...cotton dresses (40% below last year). In Nashville, Harvey's department store slashed all its prices by 35% to 40%. Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, put on sale $1 million worth of summer merchandise at cut prices. In Chicago, Mandel Brothers sold $18 summer dresses for $7. Montgomery Ward & Co. also swung a sharp ax. It cut prices from 10% to 40%; washing machines were off 10% to 15%; porch furniture...
...When the sales of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. began to slip recently, Chairman-President James D. Mooney and Adman Ward M. Canaday, a top Willys stockholder, could not agree on what to do about it. Last week Mooney moved out as president, but stayed on as chairman. Canaday began shopping for another president. A likely candidate: ex-President Charles E. Sorensen, whom Canaday had kicked upstairs to vice chairman when Mooney came in three years ago. Thanks to an airtight contract from Canaday, Sorensen draws $1,000 a week for the next five years whether he does anything...