Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idealistic mutual-ownership project dreamed up by Federal Works Agency's Colonel Lawrence Westbrook (TIME, June 2, 1941), Winfield Park's history was so deplorable that Colonel Westbrook could count himself lucky that he is now on active duty, reportedly in Australia. Less lucky was red-faced Contractor Clifford F. MacEvoy, who squirmingly admitted last week that subsidiaries of his MacEvoy Construction Co. had furnished bonding service, excavating equipment, trucks, etc. to the project at third-party profits. He also admitted that his $40-a-week secretary was put on the project (i.e., U.S. Government) payroll...
Last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who is by no means a friend of Fiorello LaGuardia, seized this climactic outburst to suggest that the Mayor needs a psychoanalyst. "The Little Flower," wrote Pegler, "has been going haywire lately. . . . He owes his job to the decent press of New York, which he hates because he can't suppress news of his own absurdities. . . . The papers have tried to cover up his alarming instability...
Having made my living (from time to time!) in radio acting and announcing for the past twelve years, it seems incredible that I should feel the slightest curiosity about a fellow Afra member! But I do, and that fellow is Westbrook Van Voorhis, whom you fellows were smart enough to sign up exclusively for the MARCH OF TIME broadcasts. He is so distinctly superior to any other announcer on the air-both in his dramatic narrative and his commercial "plugging"-that I marvel at the lack of publicity and recognition regarding him. Surely, anyone who has ever faced a microphone...
...Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), brown-haired Cornelius Westbrook Van Voorhis, 39 this month, has been on the MARCH OF TIME since 1931 (when it made its debut). He was signed exclusively by TIME, as its Voice, in 1937. Until then he had worked for some 50 programs, under at least five names. No longer anonymous, "Van" is now introduced under his own name to the world each week on MARCH OF TIME'S weekly broadcasts...
...train, arranged a luncheon, took her to see the Cannon textile mills 18 miles away, had Towel-Maker Charles Cannon explain how he treats 16,000 workers. Impressed, Mrs. Roosevelt nodded "My Day" approval in a way that would wound many a union man and flabbergast Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "In view of all this, which seems to meet high union standards, I was surprised to find that the mill was not unionized, but Mr. Cannon said they had always had good labor relations ever since his father had started the mill in '88." Charles Cannon gave...