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Like many another NAMster Sligh thinks that government spending can be cut by more than $14 billion in the next year. Such a cut, accompanied by lower taxes, says Sligh, should bring no business slump. Says he: "The people have tremendous confidence, and confidence always breeds prosperity...
...quit Colgate to take a job as a construction laborer, did a stint as a blacksmith's apprentice before joining his father's furniture company. In 1933, when the furniture industry's average loss was 14? on the sales dollar, Sligh decided to start a company of his own. With a partner and $14,000 capital, he astounded the industry by turning a profit the first year, has never since recorded a loss. Two months ago, when the A.F.L. Upholsterers International Union tried to organize one of his companies, he called a meeting of employees, and turned...
...president, N.A.M. elected Charles R. Sligh Jr., 46, the youngest man in 30 years to hold the post. Sligh, who was born in Grand Rapids, Mich, and still lives there, is head of four furniture companies which employ 400, will gross about $4,500,000 this year...
...Mare T. McHine '04," the small red lights on his forehead blinked out. "Earnest I. Sligh has been called to Cairo by the Pansmanise government," said the walking thing. "If you're interested in the Holy cross score, unless I'm rusty it will be Harvard 21 Holy Cross...
...night came Earnest I. Sligh, his swarthy, leering face hidden by the velvet lapel of his midnight-blue cloak. He slithered into the CRIMSON and darted into the hall closet. "Shhh," he hissed to the managing editor...