Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week thronged 800 conspicuously well-groomed men-all district managers of Prudential Insurance Co. of America. Ostensibly this was to be their. annual, banquet. In balconies, hanging over the railings to watch the eating & drinking better, were the womenfolk. At the speakers' table big, bluff President Edward Dickinson Duffield took his place, and close to him his good old friend, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Prudential's longtime consultant on vital statistics. Dr. Hoffman, a frail and fretful oldster, fidgeted as he ate and drank. For President Duffield had scheduled the banquet as Dr. Hoffman's 70th...
...chimed in hefty, leather-lunged Senator Dickinson of Iowa, under whose mop of white hair are all manner of soaring political ambitions...
...pioneer is 75-year-old Baron Dickinson, unless one takes seriously his description of himself as "one of the Originators of the League of Nations.''* A raring pusher into pastures new, however, is his spinster sister, 70-year-old Annie J. Dickinson. Last week she again was on the rampage, this time to supply Yugoslavia with many a W. S. (Wanderer's Shelter), each boasting...
...Spinster Dickinson War-nursed all over what is now Yugoslavia. She shares the enthusiasm of hundreds of Britons, Germans and Americans who have discovered that rustic Yugoslavia, cheap, romantic and wildly beautiful, would be a vacation Eden, if only the food were not so coarse, the sheets so grey, the inside plumbing so rare. Last week indomitable Miss Dickinson had undertaken the flotation of The Wanderer's Shelters Ltd. and was busy designing and ordering hostels and furniture. Said Pioneer Dickinson: "Our small hotels and guest houses will be dotted over the lesser known, completely unspoiled rural districts...
Among the others who have agreed to speak are Harry W. Laidler, who will join Norman Thomas in discussing socialism: the Honorable John Dickinson. Assistant Secretary of Commerce speaking on the New Deal: Max Eastman, author and editor, who will explain communism, and Seward Collins, editor of the American Review, whose topic will be Pascism...