Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...below just long enough to pass along these instructions, then turned and "ran for his life." Chief Abbott's tour took him to the bridge. He said Captain Warms saw he was suffering from the smoke, ordered him to take off in No. 1 boat. He did. Steward Bernard Kopf who was in the boat said he heard an order from the bridge: "Don't lower those boats!" But Chief Abbott cried: "Lower away! For God's sake, lower away!" In that boat were 32 of the crew, two passengers. Chief Abbott said...
...many mill owners, who had been having tough sledding for years, was surcease from cutthroat competition. President Sloan called his Institute members together and suggested that they form a code of fair competition. On that day General Hugh Johnson was still an unknown lieutenant of a famed speculator named Bernard Baruch. An offer from the Institute was sent to the President and a month later, before the Recovery Act was passed, Mr. Sloan marched into the White House and slapped a draft of the cotton textile code down on Franklin Roosevelt's desk...
...many a stricken Eskimo, carried antitoxin to many an ailing Indian, flown many a sick white to far-off hospitals. In 1930 he risked his life in an air search for his onetime flying mate, the late Carl Ben Eielson. In 1932 he made headlines by landing Father Bernard Hubbard inside the smoking volcano of Aniakchak. A longtime fur trader, Hero Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle he was charged by a 19-year-old girl with being the father of her child. Last week Frank Dorbandt...
Australia won the first test match at Nottingham in June. England won the second at Lord's. The next two were draws. The fifth at the Oval (London) last week was to last until one side won, if it took, as Cricket Critic Bernard Darwin wrote, "to all eternity...
Married? Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress ("Joan" in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan); and Frank Walker Wheeler, assistant to the president of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; in Manhattan. Marriage Revealed. Natacha Rambova, onetime wife of Cinemactor Rudolph Valentino; and Don Alvaro de Urzaiz, Spanish nobleman; 18 months ago; in Palma, Mallorca...