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Along with many another British businessman these days, Board Chairman William Cartwright felt like a man under attack by gnats. His family's firm, Cartwright's Ltd., had been making paint in Lancashire for 235 years. His plant at Oldham had been recently equipped with paint-making machinery to turn out 1,000,000 gallons a year, but try as he would, Proprietor Cartwright could not up his production beyond a quarter of that figure. Mollycoddling unions, idiotic government policies that let Japan and Germany grab good British markets, slackness, laziness, incompetence, stupidity-these were just some...
Born: February 10, 1896, in Norfolk, Va., only son (two sisters) of Lemuel C. Shepherd, a physician. His mother was Emma Lucretia Cartwright of Nantucket...
...enough to go to church, says the Rev. Colbert S. Cartwright of the First Christian Church in Lynchburg, Va. -a man ought to know why he is going. He asked each member of his congregation to think this over, then mail him a letter summing up the results. Sample reasons: ¶ "I go to church because I want to be identified with an institution that stands for freedom of the mind and spirit . . . that has brought light into the world and uplifted men through the ages." ¶ "I feel God's presence in the music, the sermon...
...born. It was wide open when I came into office, and I left it wide open. The people of Galveston want an open town." Ambrose Lukovich, his successor, added: "As a reformer ... I don't think I would have been elected." When the committee asked Mayor Herbert Y. Cartwright what it should recommend, he answered: "Regulated prostitution, liquor by the drink and gambling...
...parlor in Washington's Hotel Statler, eight frazzled negotiators sat silent for minutes at a time, pulling on cigars or cigarettes and staring morosely into space. On streamlined, shocking-pink armchairs sat the stubborn coal operators: George Love, Joseph Moody, Harvey Cartwright, Harry Moses; the stubborn miners: Thomas Kennedy, John Owens, William Mitch. On a pea-green sofa sat the grandiloquent John L. Lewis...