Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amendments, if any, were needed, and gave it $50,000 as a starter. To tall, solemn, silent Representative Howard Smith of Broad Run, Va., who has hated the New Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work of the three members of the National Labor Relations Board, the doings of its 22 regional offices, its 109 field examiners, its 10,000 cases...
Elliott H. Phillips '40 replaces Sherman Gifford, Jr. '40 as Managing Editor; Pierre Amyot '42 follows Edmund H. Doerring. H. '40 as Business Manager; and John O. Felker '41 will be Advertising Manager an place of Alan J. Lerner...
...Object of bulgy, lusty Senator Bridges' travels and speeches was to plug himself for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination. He hammered indiscriminately at the whole New Deal, showed himself to many a far-western Republican. Observing Mr. Bridges' progress with pride & prejudice were his two wealthy young angels: Edmund Converse, 32, short, blond, dynamic, whose grandfather founded the Bankers Trust Co. of New York; and tall, deliberate Palmer Beaudette, 26, whose grandfather once made Model-T bodies for Ford...
WHITE SAILS CROWDING - Edmund Gilligan-Scribner...
...Edmund Gilligan's Boundary Against Night (1938) was an ambitious, untidy, talented novel about the Boston Police Strike, included two Bannon brothers among its characters. White Sails Crowding is told by an earlier Bannon. No less high-blooded but tidier, it is a deliberately old-fashioned story of romantic adventure along the Grand Banks...