Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marlborough House last week a secretary to H. M. Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, appeared horrified at the question, "Who are Her Majesty's American friends?" He replied, "I cannot answer that question. I believe Her Majesty is acquainted with Mrs. Andrew Carnegie." Significantly not mentioned were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford, once asked by Viscountess Astor to tea at her country place on an afternoon when King George & Queen Mary also came for tea (TIME, April 23, 1928). Mr. Ford was, however, twice "commanded" to audience with Edward of Wales, as a special favor before Edward came...
Into a Monticello, N. Y., police station walked honest Andrew Bitting, dusty and broke after hitchhiking 1,500 miles from Beatrice, Neb., to confess that he had fled Monticello this summer after bumping his old car harmlessly into a bus. Andrew Bitting could not pay his $10 fine, was jailed for five days...
...Medical School, Andrew G. Webster II, of Newton Centre, has been awarded the major Harrison Briggs Webster Scholarship, while Aouney W. Dejany, Jerusalem, Palestine, has been awarded the Philip Master Lydig Scholarship, in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Carib Syndicate's interest, now 21%, has furnished about the only continuity in the subsequent colorful Barco story. Promoter MacFadden has long since been out of the company. Oilman Doherty tired of jungle oil in 1926, sold out his majority interest to Andrew William Mellon's Gulf Oil Corp. Then the concession was canceled, litigated, finally granted anew. This year, with not a barrel of oil yet delivered from the fabulous concession, Mr. Mellon sold out to Texas Corp. and Socony-Vacuum for some $12,500,000 (TIME...
Paying her tribute to Andrew's disinterestedness, his courage, his picturesqueness and the devotion to his work that never flagged in all his 80 years, Pearl Buck nevertheless makes it clear that he was often a trial to his family, his fellow missionaries and sometimes to the Chinese. Shamelessly confessing that he wished he had sons instead of daughters, he never read any of Pearl Buck's writing. When he heard she was wasting God's time scribbling novels, he picked up one of her books, stared at it doubtfully, put it back. "I think...