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...Sharply at 8:45 o'clock each workday morning the officers of the world's largest hat factory sit down at a worn, carved oak round table, go over the morning mail addressed "John B. Stetson Co., Philadelphia, Pa.", and discuss company matters. Since last June when Stetson's third president, George V. MacKinnon died, the president's chair has been vacant. This week it was occupied. Fourth head of the 74-year-old Stetson business was robust, grey-haired, 43-year-old George L. Russell Jr., former vice president and treasurer. After a miserable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Spike | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...recently adopted code for broadcasters will have on Father Coughlin cannot be foretold. . . . I dislike censorship in any form, but even censorship might not be too high a price to pay if it will help insulate us against the anti-Semitic oratory of the radio priest out in Royal Oak, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jewel Preserved | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...some six hundred volumes of keyboard music dating from about the year 1500. The complete range of organ music is covered, with the works of all major composers for the organ included. The collection is steadily growing. The new room in which it is housed is paneled in English oak. A Tintoretto painting. "The Angel Choir," was given by Mrs. Isham for the room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organ Pieces Collected in New Isham Library of Music | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Andover, Mass., Thomas Walker received a check for $60 from the British Government. Nearly 300 years ago Thomas Walker's ancestors hid Charles II from Oliver Cromwell in an oak at Boscobel, for which their descendants were awarded a ?12 bounty in perpetuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Ellis Susan Chapin, Brookline Bruce Crawford Fanny Hardon, New York George C. Cunningham Alexandra Matz, Brookline Fellowes Davis Leslie Morgan, Brookline Robert T. Davis Hetsey Griswold, West Hartford, Conn. Henry F. Dunbar Marjorie Scott, Hartford, Conn. Albert Davis Patricia Church, Great Neck, Long Island John K. Eherle Carolyn Goellig, Oak Park, Ill. Richard England Vicary Gratton, Pittsfield William E. C. Eustis Elizabeth Nellson, Chestnut Hill David W. Fay Virginia Anderson, Glen Ridge, N. J. John A. N. Fea Virginia Anderson, Glen Ridge, N. J. John C. Finegan Virginia Gilbert, Gloucester Paul J. Flamand Dorothy Roche, Sharon, Pa. Robert F. Forker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 160 Will Bring Girls to '42 Jubilee Tonight | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

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