Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early attempts to get the U. S. to join in international cartels were thwarted by the anti-trust laws. But in 1918 the Webb-Pomerene Act was passed which had the effect of enabling U. S. businessmen to join up provided that no restraint of trade within the U. S. was involved. U. S. businessmen joined up both officially and unofficially in many cartels, including those for heavy chemicals, rubber and copper. But steel has refrained chiefly for the reason expressed by onetime President W. A. Irvin of U. S. Steel: "With 49% of the world's capacity...
...worn and spiritless. There is a mission for someone: to bring material comforts, help and inspiration to the woman who labors on the farm." That was in 1907 and Horace Klein was advertising manager of a nondescript magazine called the Farmer's Wife. Its publisher was Edward A. Webb who also ran The Farmer, a poultry paper. Horace Klein carried back to St. Paul "Uncle" Henry's message and Publisher Webb decided to let his India-born, missionary-trained sister, Dr. Ella S. Webb, try her hand at missionary work among farm women. He made her editor...
...title to fame as one of the country's biggest little-known publications, the only women's magazine written exclusively for farm readers, with a 1,150,000 circulation concentrated in the Midwest and Great Lakes area, an annual revenue of $1,200,000. The late Mr. Webb had long since (1915) passed Webb Publishing Company to Mr. Klein and Albert H. Harmon. The new publisher is Mr. Harmon's only son, who has worked with his father since leaving Harvard in 1926. Mr. Klein's only son, Horace Dudley Klein, is in charge of market...
Those who could still take it made an historic evening of it by following part of the Goodman band up to Harlem to hear Count Basie's boys battle hunchbacked Chick Webb's men at the Savoy Ballroom...
...William McKinley. Among the flowing stocks, wing collars and morning coats of the N.A.M. veterans, they were distinctly new faces. Significantly, most of them had made their public names since 1929. Typical of the N.A.M. "progressives" are men like President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp., Henning Webb Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Tobaccoman Williams, Chairman Thomas Wilson of Wilson & Co. and, curiously, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir. And for official leadership they hit upon another new face, Colby Mitchell Chester, who had not only grown to national stature during Depression but also brought a new and needed viewpoint...