Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ford bought the little frame building in Dayton, Ohio in which Wilbur and Orville Wright built the world's first successful airplane 33 years ago. Moved piecemeal to Dearborn, Mich., it will be reassembled exactly as it was in 1903 when it housed Wright Cycle...
...suit brought by the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency to compel the members of the New York Clearing House to make good the losses of a fallen member, Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., which went under in 1933 as a result of the finagling of Joseph Wright Harriman (TIME, May 4). According to the Comptroller, the Clearing House banks had agreed the previous year to keep Harriman National afloat. Eleven Clearing House members, including such institutions as Chase National, National City and Irving Trust, settled out of court for some $3,600,000. But the court held last week...
Never kudized have been Frank Lloyd Wright, Felix Frankfurter, George Soule, H. L. Mencken, Heywood Broun, Carl Van Doren. Members of the U. S. Senate might be considered prime material, but among unhonored Senators are Nebraska's George Norris, Wisconsin's Robert Marion La Follette Jr., Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis got his last honorary degree...
...young Designer Douglas became bolder, launched his latest model from the roof. Gliding perfectly earthward, it landed on an admiral's head. The resultant fuss so exasperated Douglas that he quit the Naval Academy, went to M.I.T. Two years later, as the third Collier Trophy went to Orville Wright for his automatic stabilizer, Designer Douglas graduated, began to build his first real airplane at the plant of Aircrafter Glenn L. Martin. This week, 44-year-old Designer Douglas, now head of the world's greatest airplane factory, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., will journey...
...tradepaper to the U. S. Press is James Wright Brown's Editor & Publisher. Last week it contained an announcement which startled its 10,000 readers, mostly admen, newspaper writers, executives, owners. Famed Editor Marlen Edwin Pew was quitting. Reason for his resignation was that Editor Pew, 58, became worried about his health on a recent trip around the world, resolved to get a good rest. Continued was Editor Pew's informal editorial page, "Shop Talk At Thirty." It was announced that Mr. Brown would serve henceforth as both editor and publisher of Editor & Publisher...