Word: quiteness
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...Great Lakes Exposition will be put across, if at all, by the bare body of Toto Leverne as displayed five times a day to the 1,000 pop-eyed customers of the French Casino. A Scottish lass, born Trudeye Davison, Toto Leverne went to Northwestern University for two years, quit in 1934 to dance...
Steelman Millsop to the presidency of his Weirton Steel Co., making him, at 37, the youngest chief executive in the business. Steelman Millsop quit an open-hearth job to spend three years as a combat pilot with the Canadian and U. S. air forces. After the War, he barnstormed for a while as a stunt flyer, later returned to steel in the blast-furnace department of Youngstown Sheet & Tube. After a few months he moved over to drive rivets for Standard Tank Car Co., shortly shot up to the production manager's desk...
...attack into the House of Commons but it was carried by Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, the brawling M. P. who in Britain's last General Election won from James Ramsay MacDonald the former Prime Minister's seat. "Should not His Majesty's Secretary of State for War quit being a bogeyman?" cried Laborite Shinwell...
...when the first 2-ft. bronze Collier Trophy was awarded to Glenn H. Curtiss for hydro-airplane development, young Designer Douglas became bolder, launched his latest model from the roof. Gliding perfectly earthward, it landed on an admiral's head. The resultant fuss so exasperated Douglas that he quit the Naval Academy, went to M.I.T. Two years later, as the third Collier Trophy went to Orville Wright for his automatic stabilizer, Designer Douglas graduated, began to build his first real airplane at the plant of Aircrafter Glenn L. Martin. This week, 44-year-old Designer Douglas, now head...
...reversal of a much-criticized policy: it also provided the Board with a suitable figure to act as chairman of the New York Reserve Bank. Last winter Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles ap-Brothers and Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. in the Paramount reorganization. Mr. Fortington quit after a split on an involved question of profit-sharing arrangements with theatre operators, departed for Labrador, where he owns a salmon river. Whether Joe Kennedy has any suggestions for resignations will not be known until his final report is published. More comforting to the directors would be suggestions of likely...