Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BERNARD M. BARUCH...
Monastic Spartan. George & Mrs. Bernard Shaw were late for the luncheon party of 19 which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald gave to welcome Drs. Brüning & Curtius to "Chequers," the British summer White House. Mrs. Shaw appeared mortified, George, breezy and brazen as usual. By arriving late in a car which he drove himself, the red-whiskered Irishman kept waiting not only the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of two Great Powers but also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary...
...read a letter of congratulation from President Hoover and where another Morgan man talked: Vernon Munroe, president of Exeter's General Alumni Association. As Mr. Lamont looked around the tables, he saw such alumni as Senator George Higgins Moses (New Hampshire), '87, Roland William Boyden, '81, Bernard Walton Trafford, '89, and George Arthur Plimpton...
...Hurley, concluded its public hearings, prepared to write a report for the President. Created by Congress, it had heard many a witness, some with ideas, more without, on how to take the profit out of war. No proposal had gained more attention or stirred more discussion than that of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Wartime head of the War Industries Board, for "freezing" all prices by presidential proclamation at the outbreak of War (TIME, May 25). At the Commission's closing session Mr. Baruch reappeared to answer such critics of his plan as Newton Diehl Baker and General Douglas MacArthur, Chief...
...Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber of California may operate a cancer research laboratory at Huntington, L. I., but they may treat no patients there with their adrenal cortex extract (TIME, May 25 et ante). So decreed the New York Board of Social Welfare last week. The Californians consider themselves only temporarily frustrated. They may take their application to New York courts for judicial review, with all protagonists under oath. Mrs. Grace Isabell Hammond Conners, who gave them her Long Island estate, was fretting last week for an appeal to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was sailing home from...