Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giant (George Stevens; Warner...
Afterward, in defending Carlisle against charges of chicanery, Coach Pop Warner said, "The public expects the Indian to employ trickery and we try to oblige...
Sins of Bigness. This trend to bigness is criticized by some of the bigwigs. One of the strongest voices is that of Judson Sayre, who as Bendix president in 1941-55, probably did more than any other man to promote the automatic washer; he now heads Borg-Warner's fast-growing North Division (1955 sales: about $129 million, triple the 1953 volume). Says Sayre: "The industry has been committing every sin in the book. Some of the giants have a policy of 'buying off' key markets. They have been moving appliances through big dealers who operate...
...Loew's Theaters division, which he headed until last month, and hire a president who would drastically cut MGM's staff, replace Movie Production Boss Dore Schary, sell off some money-losing Loew's theaters, and possibly consolidate MGM's high-overhead moviemaking facilities with Warner Bros...
...many years later. Al was pouring verbal vitriol on an F.D.R. whom he had come to see as an enemy of U.S. institutions. Two recent books make this understandable, though neither one succeeds in really pinning down its man. The Happy Warrior, by Emily Smith Warner, is so obviously a daughter's accolade that one of the most colorful politicians in U.S. history can scarcely be seen through the swaddling layers of worshipfulness. Yet something of his genuineness, of his dedication to the job of government, comes through. He was a Tammany boy, protege of a Lower East Side...