Word: edwardes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until midsummer, except for occasional overnight races to test their ability. By last week the following had shown promise of keen competition in Saratoga's big two-year-old stakes: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Flight Command, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Now What, Arnold Hanger's Roman Flag, Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Bimelech, and Millsdale Stable's Andy...
...Warsaw for a four-day conference on "military coordination" went Britain's tallest, heaviest Army officer-Sir Edmund Ironside, Inspector General of the British Overseas Forces. His host was the tall, thin, handsome Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Polish Army. Weighing 252 pounds and standing six feet four inches, General Sir Edmund has been nicknamed "Tiny" by his men. More aptly, the Poles called him the "Iron General" and greeted him with cries of "Bravo Iron...
...broadcast, the radio priest demurred. Said he, it would be "undignified" for him to aid the sale of Emerson products. Then big Mutual offered to put him on at its own expense. Father Coughlin again demurred, explained that Elliott Roosevelt would be taken care of by his "spokesman," Father Edward Lodge Curran of Brooklyn's International Catholic Truth Society, on the regular Coughlin network this week.* Radiomen recalling that Father Coughlin had turned down an invitation to talk on NBC's Town Meeting of the Air on "Americanism" last year, concluded that the radio pries disliked controversy...
...name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year Producer Edward Small rescued him from the B's and supporting parts to skate in The Duke of West Point after the death of British Skater Jack Dunn, liked him well enough to entrust him with his crucial part in The Man in the Iron Mask...
...Three U. S. utility magnates, Floyd Carlisle (Niagara Hudson and Consolidated Edison) and Wendell Willkie (Commonwealth & Southern), are lawyers Only C. (for Clarence) E. (for Edward) Groesbeck (Electric Bond & Share) is an operating man, trained climbing poles instead of chasing commas. Hard-boiled Mr. Groesbeck, who goes his own way, is also different in another respect. He figures that the Administration has the money and the power, that there is more percentage in trading with the New Deal than in bucking it. Last week this notion of his began to pay dividends...