Word: slater
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Glad Hand. American Export has steamed a long way from the depression days of 1935, when a syndicate headed by Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm bought it lock, stock and whistle for a skimpy $1,500,000. Incoming Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater found the line loaded to the gunwales with mortgage debt, saw that one of its main assets was its European freight representative, John Francis Gehan. Bustling, ebullient "Jiggs" Gehan, known as "a man who does business with a handshake instead of a contract," found cargo for American Export ships in so many South...
Your issue of Wednesday, June 7, reprinting my broadcast with Bill Slater on the subject of education, together with your editorial comment, floated down to the foothills of the Berkshires, where I am currently engaged in a plot to take over American education. The issue interrupted me in the middle of plans that called for replacement of Mr. Conant with Gerald L. K. Smith...
...SLATER: Thank you, Bill Buckley, Friends, whether you are a student, a teacher, a parent, or a university trustee, you will want to read and think about what you've just heard, so please stay tuned in. . . Friends, our guest, William Frank Buckley, Jr., member of the Yale University debating team that bowled over Oxford on Socialism, has certainly given the rest of us something to think about--about the responsibilities of university and college trustees for purposeless policies in education. For free printed copies of this interview just drop a postcard to AMERICA'S FUTURE in care...
...SLATER: What, then should be done...
...SLATER: After the trustees have established such a teaching policy, what then...