Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gertrude Mann, two months, involuntary B. E. F. camp follower, died of malnutrition in Washington's Gallinger Hospital. In the same hospital lay Bernard Myers, 11 weeks, affected by tear...
Elisha Walker, bankless banker, and Herbert Bayard Swope, rufous onetime executive editor of the old New York World, were made directors of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. at the request of a group reported to hold 150,000 shares and headed by Bernard Mannes Baruch. Financier Baruch's direct entrance into B. M. T. affairs was thought likely to hasten unification of New York's scrambled subways...
...intellect. So is his wife who winces at being called Lady Passfield, insists she is Beatrice Webb. Lately these two leading Socialists, Laborites and economists set out on a junket to Moscow. If they thought they would receive a luxurious welcome such as was lavished last year on George Bernard Shaw (TIME, Aug. 10), they were right. The Soviet Government threw open its expensive "Guest House" for the Lord & Lady. With the discrimination of an epicure Lord Passfield ate and ate of caviar...
...Wesley Martin resigned as president of Morgan-sponsored Commonwealth & Southern Corp., big utility holding company (assets: $1,155,760,000), to return to C. & S.'s operating subsidiary, Alabama Power Co., of which he has been president since 1920. Known as both an operating and financial man, Board Chairman Bernard C. Cobb will take over President Martin's office...
...precisionist from Brooklyn, is the Metropolitan's youngest painter. Older are: Allen Tucker, 65, who has an independent income, a neat wit, and taught for six years at the Art Students' League. Hayley Lever, 55, who is witty too, taught at the Art Students' League too. Bernard Karfiol, 46, who was born in Budapest, studied at the National Academy of Design. Landscapes are rated the safest possible investments. Excepting only Marsh's picture of Bowery bums under the elevated railroad and Coleman's speakeasy interior, all the purchases were landscapes. Observers agreed the Metropolitan...