Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another feature of the week in the Kresel inquiry was the revelation that since 1926, no less than 77 young girls had been illegally committed to Bedford Reformatory as wayward minors by magistrates in Women's Court...
Alfred Clarke Bedford, son & namesake of the late chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, was made president of Colonial Beacon Oil Co., Jersey subsidiary. Previously he was vice president of Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana, also a Jersey subsidiary...
Tense though relations were last week between George V and Australia's Prime Minister Scullin (see p. 17), they were tenser still between the MacDonald Government and Canada's Richard Bedford Bennett. The Canadian Prime Minister returned to London last week from Paris where he had been feted (TIME, Dec. 8). During his absence the word "humbug" had been applied in the House of Commons by Secretary of State for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas to the proposals which Mr. Bennett made at the opening of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct. 20). Back in London, Canada...
Succeeding Mr. Wood was Andrew G. Pierce, a tight-mouthed man from New Bedford, Mass. Slowly he went about his task of strengthening the company. Inventories were gradually written down to their value. Cash was conserved although it meant passing preferred dividends. No lies were told about the company, and stockholders did not like to hear the truth. Lately Mr. Pierce has been anxious to resign, but it has been difficult to find a man to take his place...
Editorialized the London Times: "[Banker Morgan put England] under a special debt of gratitude. . . . Other Americans have taken treasures away; Mr. Morgan has given." (He gave funds for the British Museum to obtain the Bedford Book of Hours and the Luttrell Psalter...