Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malone, in person, is no glamor boy. He is an earnest, balding, fattish young man with a blond mustache, rumpled pants. No poet himself, he started out 15 years ago at KMBC, Kansas City, as a ukulele player. One day, just to fill in, he read from a book of poems, and poetry got him. Now it gets him $300 a week at NBC, and Poetaster Joseph Auslander, poetry consultant to the U. S. Library of Congress, once invited him to be U. S.'s "Voice of Poetry...
...another arm-the War and Navy Departments. Its new lines: aircraft parts, ordnance, armored truck bodies. To help win a place on Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson's clubby suppliers' list, Hayes Body went last week and got a new president, veteran Munitions Salesman John W. Young...
Until a few years ago, Young, who could be taken for a missionary (which his brother Paul, who has occasionally cooperated with him, is), was making quite a thing out of the Latin American and domestic market for munitions. He was engaged in "Protection Engineering" as president of Federal Laboratories, Inc., whose sales zoomed during NRA days as vendors of tear gas and machine guns to corporations involved in labor difficulties. Senator Nye's Munitions Committee and Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee both investigated Mr. Young. Choice reports to Young publicized by the Committees: from Missionary...
...Young, who considers tear gas a humanitarian substitute for bullets, was out of the spotlight. He was still President of Federal Laboratories, but Federal Laboratories had become the subsidiary of a much more obscure company. Name of its corporate parent was Breeze Corporations, of which Munitions Salesman Young became executive vice president, and a director...
Early this year, 79 stockholders brought a stockholders' suit against the Breeze management, applied for a receiver for the company. They did not sue Vice President Young. Some of their more colorful charges...