Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lecture. Under the cool slopes of Monduli Mountain last week Edward Mbarnoti, dressed in a ceremonial blue robe and a monkey-hair headdress, officially received the chieftainship from Tanganyika Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, and resplendent British uniforms mingled with the Dogpatch garb of spear-carrying Masai elders and tribesmen. Edward's coronation speech was a simple statement of Masai needs: legal recourse against farmers squatting on Masai lands, improved water facilities, a share in the profits of the tourist-frequented game reserves given up by the Masai...
...Change. In Chicago, sentenced to a year's probation for passing bad checks, Edward Gallaga was rearrested after he paid his first visit to the probation officer, while there cashed a stolen $100 money order...
First Showing. In Los Angeles, House Painter Edward L. Rice, being sued for divorce, was ordered by Superior Court to stop driving around his neighborhood with a sign on his car: "My wife is the meanest woman on earth...
...Louis C. Lustenberger, 54, moved up from executive vice president to president of W. T. Grant Co.. second biggest U.S. junior department-store chain (after J. C. Penney), succeeding Edward Staley, 55, who became vice chairman and chief executive officer. Pittsburgh-born Louis Lustenberger joined Grant in the standards department in 1929, three years out of Carnegie Institute of Technology. In Depression '32 he moved to Montgomery Ward, rose quickly to general personnel manager and vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley...
...Died. Edward Eagle Brown, 74, pace-setting U.S. banker who as president (1934-45) and board chairman (1945-59) of Chicago's First National Bank helped carry Chicago's wobbly economy through the Depression, was one of the first to promote term loans, played an important part in shaping today's more flexible U.S. monetary system; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An intellectual maverick for a banker, courtly Edward Brown, read a balance sheet or James Joyce with equal recall, was a lifelong Democrat who was hauled in by Chicago cops in 1912 while campaigning for Woodrow...