Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everywhere I Roam (by Arnold Sundgaard & Marc Connelly; produced by Marc Connelly & Bela Blau) is a hymn to the soil. It begins 100 years ago in a sort of prairie Garden of Eden. The toiling farmer drips with honest sweat, his steadfast wife brings him cool water from the spring, and Johnny Appleseed moseys by, planting apple trees...
Hard at work ever since October, cudgeling their brains four days a week with the aid of a battery of experts, have been the six railroaders-Presidents Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania and Ernest Eden Norris of Southern, Vice Chairman Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific, Chairman George McGregor Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, President Bert Mark Jewell of the Railway Employes' Department of A. F. of L. and President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Last week, after Messrs. Gray and Harrison again conferred with Franklin Roosevelt, the committee finally...
...keener interest to Washington was a one-man social performance put on between the Roosevelts' parties by Captain Anthony Eden of England. Continuing his "looking and learning" visit to the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 19), he went to Washington as an ordinary member of Parliament, but popular excitement could not have been greater had he still been Foreign Secretary. The press mobbed him at Union Station. Women workers at the State Department and White House left their desks and cubbyholes to gather in adulating clusters around...
...hours before returning Captain Eden marched up the Queen Mary's gangplank in Manhattan, down it marched Ambassador Joe Kennedy. He denied that his second return from London within six months had any high significance: he was just going to spend Christmas with son Jack at Palm Beach, rest for six weeks. The idea that he was in disfavor at the White House for having applauded the Chamberlain policy of "appeasement," he laughed off by asserting that his speeches in England were read in advance in Washington. Then he shed some of the celebrated Kennedy gloom...
Many other British statesmen have been called just as bad or worse in the German press (notably Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Alfred Duff Cooper), but last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lord Baldwin's successor, decided to defend his old Cabinet colleague. Invited to deliver the main speech at the 50th anniversary dinner of London's Foreign Press Association, which includes in its membership German as well as U. S., French, Italian, Polish, Latin American correspondents, Mr. Chamberlain, in preparing his speech, inserted amidst paragraphs of amiable generalities one moderate sentence of criticism...