Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That vote made Virginia's Woodrum, House champion of Economy, sure of another triumph. As Georgia's irascible Representative Edward E. Cox put it, the country Congressmen would cut the city men's throats...
...year ago, such avowed foes of the Act as Nebraska's Senator Edward R. Burke, Michigan's Representative Clare Hoffman, the National Association of Manufacturers could get nowhere toward amendment. Since then A. F. of L.'s leadership has plumped for change. Now Clare Hoffman approvingly quotes A. F. of L. to the considerable embarrassment of Bill Green, who strenuously opposes even more drastic alterations proposed by Hoffman, Burke, N. A. M., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. John Lewis' C. I. O. resists any change, on the ground that once the Wagner Act is opened...
...divorcee named Marguerite Lawler Branyen, who had been a nurse-stewardess on the Union Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed the lead of his father and of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor-married an American woman. Marguerite Branyen. The words the Maharaja chose were strangely reminiscent of Edward VIII's famous last speech as King...
Back in Minneapolis, the Maharanee's family received news of the marriage with mixed emotions. Her father, a 64-year-old retired railroad switchman who gets along on a $30-a-month pension, was proud of the way Peggy was getting ahead in the world. But her brother Edward, a WPA worker, could not see it that way. "It's his race," he snapped. "I don't like...
...Trespassing" sign. The "tramp printer" is Bruce Rogers, greatest modern book designer. At 68, a trim, blue-eyed, steady-handed oldster who might pass for a waggish sailing captain, Bruce Rogers is to U. S. book-designing and printing what Frank Lloyd Wright is to architecture, Edward Steichen to photography...