Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rolling along in his high-gear expansion drive, Montgomery Ward's aggressive Chairman John A. Barr last week dipped farther into the $198 million capital reserve long hoarded by penny-pinching former Chairman Sewell Avery. To put Ward on Chicago's State Street, the city's retail center, Barr announced purchase of the Fair, an 82-year-old department store with three thriving suburban branches, controlled by Five & Ten Mogul Sebastian S. Kresge's charitable Kresge Foundation. For $7,532,500, Ward bought 301,300 shares of the Fair stock from the foundation...
...Jefferson Ward Keener, 48, was made president of B.F. Goodrich Co., nation's fourth largest rubber company, succeeding William S. Richardson, 63, who is retiring. Keener is slated for another early promotion, to succeed Goodrich's chairman and chief executive, John L. Collyer, 63, when Collyer reaches retirement age in September 1958. Born near Birmingham, the son of a Southern Railway conductor, Keener worked his way through Birmingham-Southern College, then the University of Chicago business school, in 1929 got a job teaching economics at Ohio Wesleyan. In 1933 he tried to go to work for Goodrich...
...Barbara Ward. British economist and political essayist Litt.D...
...look in U.S. city government. Says he: "The old type mayor was a ceremonial figure, concerned with marriages, wakes, strawberry festivals, ribbon-cutting. Today a mayor has to be an administrator and planner." A shipping clerk's son, Lee grew up in New Haven's Irish 17th Ward, after high school cut his political teeth covering city hall for the Journal-Courier. A peptic ulcer gave him an Army medical discharge in World War II; he went to Yale not as a student but as publicity director in 1943, four times handily won election as alderman from...
...Letting San Francisco Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Eddie Lowery pay his way to a long list of amateur golf tournaments seemed all right to U.S. Amateur Champion Harvie Ward. Lowery was his boss, and Lowery told him, said Harvie, that it did not matter that the U.S. Golf Association had given him expense money too. The U.S.G.A. saw things somewhat differently. Last week it put Harvie on a year's probation for violating amateur ethics...