Word: name
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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President Eliot was one of these four; the first time he was suggested the Board sent his name back to the Corporation, the other governing board, because of his youth. When the Corporation ones again supported Eliot, he was finally approved...
Stanton's success story makes Horatio Alger seem believable. Last year he signed a ten-year, million-dollar contract with CBS, and bonuses will raise his annual income to $130,000. Last month he had the heady experience of turning down a job, for which he could "name his own price," offered him by rival RCA. Refusing jobs has become almost a matter of routine. In his 15 years at CBS he has said no (sometimes repeatedly) to Pollsters Elmo Roper and Nielsen, FORTUNE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two other universities, three advertising firms, assorted Government agencies...
...with a craftsman's pride: "You can't very well be a dummy and be a referee." In exchange for his package of virtues, the good football official gets the reward of an afternoon's exercise, a nice (up to $125) fee and his name in small type at the bottom of the program...
...which he once turned out), are backed by generally good judgment, but there are exceptions. After a local performance of George Sessions Perry's play, My Granny Van, Rosenfield told a friend of Perry's: "Remind George that I haven't forgotten that he misspelled my name" in a book Perry wrote on Texas. The next day Rosy wrote a stinging review of the play...
...sale in Wall Street last week was an over-the-counter stock with an impressive name: American-Canadian Uranium Co., Ltd. Even more impressive were the company's top officials. The president was white-haired, handsome Paul V. McNutt who, as War Manpower Commissioner and High Commissioner to the Philippines, was a king in the New Deal deck. Vice President was Josiah Marvel Jr., onetime Ambassador to Denmark and recently appointed by President Truman to the International Claims Commission. McNutt, Marvel & Co. hoped to sell 500,000 shares of American-Canadian stock at $3.50 apiece (par value...