Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace was wonderful for Republicans, it was dismal for Democrats. Just before Knight's move, Democratic Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown had announced his candidacy for governor, betting heavily on the fact of a Republican-splitting Knight-Knowland contest. His bet lost, Brown complained of a "cynical deal engineered by a reactionary darling hell-bent for the White House." But Pat Brown, described by a friend as "a great big Teddy bear who doesn't want to grow claws," has never shown any liking for a knockdown drag-out fight. And that was the only kind...
Knowland's high standing among California's Republican regulars gives him a leg up in the June primary over Goodie Knight. But Knowland might well have a tougher time against his likely Democratic opponent, Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who has the advantage of California's larger Democratic registration, is running ahead of Knowland in informal polls, and would doubtless get help from some unhappy Knight Republicans...
...Detroit physician named Orville Owen went so overboard on his own cipher theory that he declared Bacon was not only Shakespeare but also such authors as Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and Robert Burton. Another Baconian found his inspiration in the fact that both Bacon and Shakespeare used the word honorificabili-tudinitatibus. He divided the word into two parts, spelled the first backward (BACIFIRONOH), declared this to be an anagram for FR BACONO. From the rest of the letters, he got HI LUDI TUITI NATI SIBI, which taken all together spelled "These Plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves...
...Lancashire weavers rioted in 1791 and burned to the ground a cotton mill newly set up by Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom. Time and again as the Industrial Revolution spread, workmen fearful of losing their livelihood attacked new labor-saving machines with hammers and torches. Even today, some labor unions (e.g., building trades, printers, stagehands, locomotive engineers) combat technological progress with featherbedding practices; their leaders regard automation with a milder and more law-abiding version of the 18th century loom-wrecker's wild fear...
...labor has come far since Edmund Cartwright's day. How very far was plain last week when delegates at the Amalgamated Lithographers of America convention in Chicago adopted a proposal to put $1 million in A.L.A. money into a fund to promote technological advances in lithography, provided that employers put up a matching sum. The fund will bring "better working conditions and real wage increases," argued Edward Swayduck, the man behind the plan...