Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas recess, to meet again on January 31, youthful Dominions & Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald warned the House of Commons that Britain must soon find a policy to increase her birth rate for the "highest imperial reasons." "I confess I cannot do anything about it," added Mr. MacDonald, a bachelor...
Managing Editor Edwin Leland James of the Times said this week, "We hope Cortesi will stay with the Times." A lean, cat-eyed, lightly mustached bachelor who understands Americans through his mother (the former Isabelle Lauder Cochrane of Boston), Britishers through his education (he was graduated as an electrical engineer from Birmingham University, worked for a time in the English Westinghouse plant at Manchester), Reporter Cortesi has spent the last 17 of his 41 years covering Italy for the Times, prefers quiet meals at home to dining out in smart places. "His only objections to alcohol," according to a friend...
...cloakroom for a time, he has a rather limited legal and judicial experience. He practiced in Seattle for about 11 years, and his other accomplishments (listed by himself in his "congressional Record" autobiography) include the Stage Commandership of the American Legion in 1922, and the fact that he is bachelor, residing with his mother." The recently-defeated Governor Murphy of Michigan, known as the friend of the C.I.O. is anathema to the conservative wing of the Democratic party, which recently gained the upper hand, and his appointment would serve notice of an open split of the Democrats into two angry...
Radcliffe fought five with fire yesterday, greeting the newly formed Bachelor's Society with emotions ranging from scorn to deepest concern. If the Harvard group continues to grow, according to several of the girls, they expect to form an Old Maids' Club...
Sixty Glorious Years (Imperator-RKO Radio) should be an enlightening experience for U. S. cinemaddicts whose notions about 19th-Century history may have been slightly confused by recent Hollywood versions. Suez, for example, portrayed Ferdinand de Lesseps, who actually had two wives and ten children, as a lovesick young bachelor, and explained England's participation in his canal-building as the result of a General Election which never occurred. In Sixty Glorious Years, a dinner-table chat between Disraeli and Queen Victoria shows how the matter was actually handled. This reverence for the real is characteristic of a picture...