Word: conways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recipient of last week's milestone was Joseph V. Ledwinka, 64, Vienna-born chief engineer of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. (Philadelphia), makers of automobile and railroad equipment (see p. 49). The company sent him to Washington to be photographed receiving his papers from the hand of Conway Peyton Coe, young Commissioner of Patents. Engineer Ledwinka was not excited by the event. This was the 248th U. S. patent he has received since, in 1899, he invented "a means of propulsion of vehicles by electricity...
Latest Bulletins indicate the following snow conditions in New England. Mt. Washington 11 inches Pinkham Notch 40 1/2 inches North Conway 42 inches Greenfield, N.H. 22 inches...
...western Massachusetts snow lies from 14 to 40 1-2 inches deep. Indications of fair weather for this weekend will make conditions ideal for skiing and snowshoeing. The Boston and Maine Snow Train runs to Greenfield. New Hampshire on Sunday. Other easily accessible places with deep snow are North Conway, Mt. Washington and Pinkham Notch...
Living Dangerously (by Reginald Simpson & Frank Gregory; Shuberts, producers). In this British importation, a London physician named Norton (Conway Tearle) breaks off his partnership with unscrupulous Dr. Pryor (Percy Waram) because the latter has been selling narcotics. Thereupon Dr. Pryor runs to the Medical Council with the tale that Dr. Norton has been unprofessionally intimate with his wife (Phoebe Foster). Since Dr. Norton loses his right to practice, Mrs. Pryor is disgraced and her husband subsequently sent to jail, the chief characters of this piece appear to be living not dangerously but miserably...
...celebrating his 70th birthday, tall, lean, goat-bearded General Peyton Conway March, Chief of Staff during the last months of the War, welcomed newshawks in his Washington office, told them that the U. S. should build up its Army from 136,000 to 300,000 men in preparation for war in Europe. Warned he: "The situation in Europe is so bad that anything can happen at any time. The Saar at present is a tinder box. . . . Japan will never play a hand with us unless...