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...Brown, Charles F. Kettering. Not so well known are the three topnotch assistants of Walter P. Chrysler: K. (for Kaufman) T. (for Thuma) Keller, Fred Morrell Zeder, B. Edwin Hutchinson. Engineer Keller was hired from General Motors by Walter Chrysler in 1926 to consolidate the manufacturing plants of Dodge Bros. He stayed on to become Chrysler vice president in charge of production. Mr. Zeder was chief engineer at Studebaker in 1924 when Mr. Chrysler invited him to design the first Chrysler engine. He remained to build succeeding models as chief engineer. Mr. Hutchinson, onetime auditor with Ernst & Ernst, onetime treasurer...
...Atlanta 20 piecework shirtwaist makers struck when wages were cut from $1.80 to $1.50 a dozen, hours upped from 35 to 37½ At Manchester, Conn. 1,200 silk workers threatened to strike against a 5% to 20% wage cut imposed by Ward Cheney, great NRAdvocate, head of Cheney Bros. He backed down...
Painters are traditionally articulate; Walter Pach more so than most. His father, founder of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, was official photographer to the Metropolitan Museum of Art since its founding. The child crawled on the Museum's floors before he could walk, squinting observantly up at the walls. His nickname was first "Rabbits," because he raised them, then "Piney," because his hair bristled. In 1907 he went to Paris, saw a Matisse painting, "felt a blow between the eyes." He began to fight the battle of modern art, helped organize the famed Armory Show...
...Spalding & Bros...
...Philadelphia, Richard called in the newshawks, gave out a lengthy statement, couched in the third person, declaring the whole affair an incident in a "battle for Wall Street control of Gimbel Bros...