Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Caro Lloyd Strobell, 81, who with two younger friends (69 and 71) recently took title to the Communist Daily Worker (TIME, Aug. 12) to preserve it "as a medium of free expression in the interest of the working people of America"; in Little Compton, R. I. Comrade Earl Browder called her: "an outstanding example of the best American character...
...Lord as moderator. Moderator Paul chose his sides skillfully. On business' teams, he lined up such stalwarts as Old Colony Trust Co.'s T. Jefferson Coolidge, Dime Savings Bank's Philip Adolphus Benson, Guaranty Trust Co.'s Robert L. Garner, Bowery Savings Bank's Earl Bryan Schwulst, Kuhn Loeb's Benjamin J. Buttenwieser. On Government's team, he picked such men as Jerome Frank, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Lauchlin Currie, Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser, Commerce's Richard V. Gilbert...
...Duff Cooper. All flatly deny authorship. At any rate Guilty Men is terse, biting, sometimes eloquent, gives every appear ance of careful, responsible judgment. The charges are not new. But the total indictment is terrible. Guilty Men is headed by a cast sheet of villains. Among them: Ramsay MacDonald, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax, Sir Thomas Inskip, Mr. Leslie Burgin, a half-dozen others...
Lord Ogilvy is in fact no lord. His proper name is Captain the Hon. Lyulph Gilchrist Stanley Ogilvy. He was the second son of the seventh Earl of Airlie, who took him to Colorado on a visit in 1879, when Lyulph was a wild young blood of 18, and bought him a ranch near Greeley. There Lyulph spent 20 years living on his patrimony...
...story goes, he took his son, Jack David Angus Ogilvy, to Britain for a visit. His nephew, the ninth Earl, took him through the stables at Airlie, asked him to pick a winner for the Grand National at Aintree. Lyulph Ogilvy chose a scrawny, rawboned horse named Master Robert. Said young Airlie scornfully: "Why, that plug's not good for anything but plowing-that's what we are using him for now." But Ogilvy's choice was groomed for the Grand National, got home the winner...