Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Someone put alcohol in Bernard Marx's blood surrogate while he was still in his bottle, and Bernard turned out a misfit. He took his Lenina to the feelies and to color organ concerts, danced with her to "Bottle songs" ("Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted . . ."), but he objected to sharing her with others. For that he was banished to Iceland. "Mr. Savage" was b --n on an Indian reservation of a real m ----r, and he too fell in love...
...Houston banker, builder (Rice Hotel) & publisher (Chronicle}. As the finance director of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Jones lured the 1928 party convention to his city with a blank check. Good friend is he of Governor Ross Sterling, whose private finances he now manages. New York's Bernard Mannes Baruch declined appointment to R. F. C. after its chairmanship went to Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Meyer, its presidency to Charles Gates Dawes. All week long President Hoover kept prodding his R. F. C. forward into action. In its final enactment Congress made only three significant changes...
...Cape Town George Bernard Shaw...
...abbey of Moutier-Saint-Jean from which these capitals originated was in the department of Cote-d'Or in the valley of the Recome, a few miles above Semur. Little now remains of this church, originally built by the Abbott Bernard II who was elected Abbott in 1109, and died in 1133. Since the size and architectural forms of the capitals indicate that they supported heavy transverse ribs, they must therefore have been carved before...
...Federal Re serve Board (Eugene Meyer) and the Farm Loan Commissioner (Paul Bestor) are R. F. C. directors, accounting for three of the four Republican places. About the White House last week it was generally assumed that two of the Democratic directors of R. F. C. would be Bernard Mannes Baruch, New York financier and onetime chairman of the War Industries Board, and Edward Nash Hurley, Chicago banker and onetime chairman of the Shipping Board. For active president of R. F. C. was needed a man with a repu tation for vigor as well as for banking. Mr. Hoover chose...