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...born a statesman. At 17 he was a friend, on a plane of intellectual equality, of the Royal Governor of Virginia. At 24 he was one of the five most prosperous lawyers in the colony. At 26, the builder of Monticello was the master of broad acres, honored by the British Government, a member of the House of Burgesses. At 33, the author of the Declaration of Independence was, with Washington and Franklin, one of the few Americans who belonged on any list of the world's great...
This week the Wanous-Brown program passed its first anniversary. Not an inkwell had yet been thrown. The classes have spread to union hiring halls, high schools, other aircraft plants. Last week labor and management were still equally enthusiastic. Said O. G. Lompe, a Douglas jig builder and C.I.O. shop steward, "Sure, we like the class. They give us the straight facts. ..." Said Supervisor Robert Kennedy, in charge of building C-47s: "Yes sir, I learned a helluva lot." Said President Donald Douglas: "Most grievances grow from misunderstanding. When we learn how to analyze and understand the other fellow...
General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, visiting Detroit, was greeted by Aircraft Builder Henry Ford, caught by a photographer in powerful and unusual profile...
Died. W. S. ("Dad") Lively, 88, pioneer tintypist, daguerrotypist and photographer whose works have long been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution, builder of the world's onetime largest camera (11 by 6 by 5 ft.); in McMinnville. Tenn...
...auction block. Records showed that most of this fusty flotsam had come from Manhattan's great A. T. Stewart department store, predecessor to John Wanamaker's. But no records showed who had designed the pieces or the hotel itself. One guess was that the hotel's builder-one Seymour Ainsworth-had styled his building by the contractor's sample book, simply slapping, on brackets, gables, machine-cut wooden columns and arches...