Word: webb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bosses (a figure perhaps exaggerated for the good of the tale), Mr. Avery has been trimming Montgomery Ward, grouping its functions. Henceforth there will be but four big bosses under him. First to be selected were Harry E. Hughes, vice president in charge of all operations, and David Thomas Webb, vice president in charge of merchandising. Still to be appointed is a vice president in charge of finance; Robert Guy Bear is acting in that capacity now. Last week Boss No. 3 was appointed. He was Walter Hoving, 34, executive vice president of R. H. Macy & Co., whose new position...
...would be good publicity and politics for him to receive the crooner. The President, before consenting, was reported to have replied rather irritably: "Who is Rudy Vallée?" Last week Crooner Vallee was back at the White House, this time with his wife, daughter of Chief of Police Webb of Santa Monica, Calif.* In the President's office the following talk occurred (according to Vall?...
...Father-in-Law Webb befriended Brother-in-Law Leavitt when the President's sister's husband was arrested for liquor possession last year (TIME...
Married Seward Webb Pulitzer, son of Ralph Pulitzer, grandson of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Billie Boldemann, of San Mateo, Calif.; in Manhattan...
...Chicago, one James Webb earned a good living by fainting on street cars, elevated trains, platform, sidewalks, etc., until kind-hearted bystanders took up collections for him. "I made an average of twelve faints a day," James Webb told Judge John Sbarbaro. Judge Sbarbaro fined him $200. James Webb fainted...