Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before entering government service, Bowles started a successful advertising agency. His important posts in Washington included OPA Administrator and Economic Stabilization Director...
...Match Co.) began to acquire a controlling 35% interest in the widely held McCall stock. He reorganized the board in his favor, and last year startled Madison Avenue by bringing in Langlie as president. Puritanical, parsimonious Lawyer Langlie was a three-time (1941-45, 1949-57) Republican governor of Washington (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956), but a publishing amateur...
...Smith got a rock-bottom rental, and the other airlines were eventually forced to follow, but at much higher rates. When World War II began, Smith resigned from American to become an Army Air Corps colonel. He was made second-in-command of the Air Transport Command in Washington, ended up as a major general. His old boss, Lieut. General Harold L. George, gives him the "principal credit" for success. Used to cracking out orders himself, C.R. was not awed by brass. George remembers vividly the time Smith disagreed with General Henry ("Hap") Arnold, Army Air Force chief. "C.R. turned...
...inaugural ceremonies for the University of Washington's new president, Charles E. Odegaard, President Clark Kerr of the University of California last week offered some of the green fruit of his experience: "I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty...
...WASHINGTON, Nov. 16--Chairman Meade Alcorn has won the personal blessing of President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon and Gov.-elect Nelson A. Rockefeller for drastic moves to revitalize the Republican party after its disastrous Nov. 4 defeat. Alcorn, who presided over the worst licking the GOP has taken in years, ordinarily would be expected to bow out and let another man rebuild...