Word: selden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Allied acquisition last week was Edgar Selden Bloom, longtime president of the $281,000,000 A. T. & T. subsidiary Western Electric (which makes 80-90% of all U. S. telephone equipment). Circumstances made it easy for the British Purchasing Commission to obtain the services of a front-rank U. S. businessman as purchasing agent. Though his hair is not white, Mr. Bloom last week turned 65 (Western Electric's retirement age), announced he would retire Dec. 31* and take the British Commission's job as Director of Purchases...
...ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY-Edited by Selden Rodman-Random House ($3). A generous assortment of modern verse, with biographical notes on all the writers represented, and an enthusiastic if somewhat cockerel-sure introduction to contemporary poetics-all aimed to give readers a leg-up on Pegasus. Most readers will like Editor Rodman and his broad-backed horse...
Died. Mrs. Eleanor Selden Washington Howard, 81, great-great-grandniece of George Washington, last of the Washington clan to be born in Mount Vernon; of pneumonia; in Alexandria...
...biscuits are from tea biscuits, the tots of Make A Wish are discovered in a paradisal boys' camp, where Chip (Bobby Breen), although a new boy, becomes an instant favorite with everybody, apparently because of his bugle-like voice. Across the lake from the camp John Selden (Basil Rathbone) is summering, trying to get a start on his new operetta. Chip and Selden strike up a beautiful, laughing friendship, the operetta goes forward by leaps & bounds, and when Chip's mother, Irene (Marion Claire), comes for a visit and turns out to be a singer...
...town department stores whose patrons supposedly make many a trip to New York to stock up at Macy's. To give them a kind of room service and oblige local shopkeepers Macy's set up a new corporation, Supremacy Products, Inc.. under President Percy Selden Straus's eldest son, Ralph. To a selected store in each trading area Ralph stands ready to sell "Macy's Own" merchandise "price free," i.e., to be marked down or up as local conditions require. Some of Macy's 8,000 branded articles are made to order...