Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...household in the world is more subject to the hot breath of gossip than Britain's House of Windsor. Last week the mongering winds were howling louder around Buckingham Palace than they had since the day of Wallis Warfield Simpson and Edward VIII...
...neither, apparently, did President Eisenhower. "This is a new thought that has come in," said Ike next day at his press conference. Newsmen could squeeze no details out of the State Department; this increased their irritation. "I'm not in favor of a blackmail proposition, either," said J. Edward Murray, managing editor of the Los Angeles Mirror-News. "Dulles is not wrong to refuse to bargain on the basis of the prisoners' release. But it's a separate issue entirely...
...broadcasting industry again demonstrated its squeamishness as CBS cancelled Eric Severeid's broadcast last Wednesday evening criticizing the State Department's decision to prevent U.S. newsmen from entering China. Edward R. Murrow, whose criticism of the same policy on the same network was allowed to run because it was read by a different editor, has reportedly been severely criticized by top CBS officials for "editorializing...
...citizens, were made at a special meeting on last December 11 called ostensibly to consider the budget. The Superintendent of Schools, John M. Tobin, was ill on that evening and could not attend the session, as he is legally required to do. Acting as chairman of the Committee, Mayor Edward J. Sullivan seized upon this opportunity to move for suspension of the rules, which require the examination of merit qualifications and the approval of the Superintendent of Schools. The opposition of Shaplin and Mrs. Ogden was ignored...
...MacFarlane, 74, president since the farm implement company was founded in 1929, who becomes vice chairman of the board. Henry Reddig, an Oklahoman who worked first as Montgomery Ward's chief accountant while studying at night, has bought and sold several Ohio companies with his brother Edward, now chairman of Minneapolis-Moline, and is still president-owner of Cleveland's toolmaking Maxwell Co. The Reddigs began investing heavily in Minneapolis-Moline based on its growth potential, though its earnings have fallen 92% since 1950. The Reddigs plan to diversify into heavy industrial machinery and highway equipment...