Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other speakers who addressed the meeting were Harold R. Bixler, Executive Vice-President of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, and Theodore E. Veltfort, Manager of the Copper and Brass Research Association. The forum was the third in a series sponsored by the Office of Student Placement...
Harold R. Bixler, Executive Vice-President of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, Norman MacDonald, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations, and Theodore E. Veltfort, Manager of the Copper and Brass Research Association, will be the three speakers...
Point by point, Bridges denied the Government's charges that he had attended secret meetings of the Communist Party's top brass. He assailed the Government witnesses with venom, as "liars, rats and stool pigeons," continually reminded the jury that the Government had tried unsuccessfully to prove him a Communist twice before. In talking of the Government's most convincing witness-Newsman George Wilson, who charged that he had seen Bridges at a Communist meeting in San Francisco-the longshore leader cried: "[They were] pointing a gun at him. He looked like a guy who was about...
Herman W. Steinkraus, Connecticut manufacturer (Bridgeport Brass Co.) and president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saw the same danger. "Every group is pressing on Washington to get more, more, more," said Steinkraus at a Cincinnati luncheon . . . "If we keep on this spending spree at the rate we are going . . . our tax burden will become well-nigh intolerable." The nation, he added, is "very near that point which economists refer to as the 'peril point...
...nephews. Blue-eyed, urbane Walter A. Haas, who married one of Levi's grandnieces, became president in 1928 and pushed its expansion. When dude ranches became popular in the '30s, Haas introduced "Levis for Ladies." But Haas really hit the big time when Levis-and similar brass-studded blue-jeans made by many another manufacturer-became a virtual campus uniform for bobby-soxers...