Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Edward VIII less than a year ago abdicated the throne of England to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, it was clear that almost anything he did thereafter would be a painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start...
Bedaux Week. To most of the U. S., Efficiency Expert Bedaux has long been a mysterious figure known only as the proprietor of the Chateau de Cande where the Duke and Duchess were married last June and as the inventor of something called the "Bedaux hour."* To U. S. Labor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux is not mysterious at all. Labor regards the Bedaux hour as synonymous with the "stretch-out" and "speed-up," considers Efficiency Expert Bedaux, whose system is used in 1,000 plants throughout the world, one of its bitterest enemies. Arrival of Efficiency Expert Bedaux caused an immediate...
...right ahead." Trying to obey, Efficiency Expert Bedaux encountered more obstacles. Said he the next afternoon: "Up to 1 o'clock I was very gay. Since then something has happened. . . ." Whether or not the something was a refusal by the State Department to accord royal status to the Duchess of Windsor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux would...
...Tovarich" is a delicious mixture of first-rate humor and first-rate drama. The situation of the old Russian aristocracy reduced to romantic humility is saved from triteness by the simple addition of four billion francs, entrusted by the old tsar to the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna and her consort, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff, to be delivered to the new tsar whenever he should ascend the imperial throne...
Before they get jobs, the Grand Duchess and the Prince not only use the subtle wiles of conferring lofty titles on their landlords, but are also driven to a little plain theft. When they learn that the French government, highly solicitous of such unusual guests, has been having the grocers look the other way while Her Highness lifts a few artichokes, they are righteously enraged at the mean deception practiced upon them...