Word: hermans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week. He could not abide the taunts of U.A.W.'s keg-headed Richard Frankensteen, who continually brings up the story that back in the bad old non-union days, Chrysler planted a spying boarder in the Frankensteen home. But Mr. Keller's able, labor-wise Vice President Herman Weckler, negotiating with "Durable Dick" Frankensteen and his boss, U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas, actually seemed to be getting somewhere. Within sniffing distance was settlement, re-employment of 58,000 idle Chrysler workers and perhaps 150,000 more in closed supply plants...
...looked to a man who loved his Führer and thought the Jews were everywhere. They had heard how Fritz Kuhn had been arrested, not for his beliefs, but on a charge of forgery and theft from his own Bund. They heard young Herman McCarthy, Tom Dewey's assistant, build up a long, involved case about Fritz Kuhn taking $717.02 to pay for the shipment of a woman's furniture-not his wife's. They heard the judge ask: "Was she your mistress?" and they heard Fritz Kuhn roar...
...strike of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. O.) had easily broken the Abie's Irish Rose record held by General Motors' strike (44 days in 1937), and gloomy Chrysler dealers were wondering if it would run as long as Tobacco Road. Adamant sat big Tough Guy Herman L. Weckler, 49, almost six feet, almost 200 pounds, Chrysler's formidable, nimble-minded operating vice president. Adamant too sat bigger Tough Guy Richard T. Frankensteen, 6-feet-1, 220 pounds, onetime University of Dayton tackle, aggressive, teddybear chief...
...night last week 14 men met in Washington's exclusive Cosmos Club for dinner. Ostensible purpose: to honor bouncing young Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana University. Real purpose: a get-acquainted meeting for Paul Vories McNutt and the Janizariat of the New Deal...
Sparkplug of the deal is a softspoken, balding Detroit lumber wholesaler named Herman I Hymans, who has never before nosed into politics. Originally he wanted to buy only 100,000,000 feet of the hurricane timber, was afraid that if he did the market price would go to pot when the Government began selling. Northeastern Association was the solution. To keep it out of the monopoly class, the Government insisted that it be a cooperative with at least 30 members. Last week, with a Delaware incorporation and Manhattan offices, it began soliciting more members...