Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before leaving Warm Springs last week President Roosevelt drove down to the railway station to meet his military aide, Lieut. Colonel Edwin Watson, who was to accompany him to Chicago. "Come on, Pa," said the President, welcoming the colonel into his car. They tootled through the Foundation grounds, to the wooded hillside where the Presidential Marine guard was tenting. Pointing, the President said: "There's your tent, Pa. It's been pretty chilly lately but I think you'll be all right with a good army blanket. The stove is a bit rusty but the boys will...
...subject of H.M. This transformation is a direct result of reading TIME. Your picture-composed of just those intimate glimpses of no consequence which Mr. McFarlan decries-has enabled me to see in Edward of Wales a character for which neither Reader McFarlan nor TIME need apologize. J. EDWIN HANSON...
...best seller of 1934 was Kemmerer on Money, a timely tract on the gold standard whipped out by Princeton's famed money doctor. Onetime financial adviser to the Philippines, the Dawes Commission and eleven foreign nations, Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer has lately been in high domestic favor with hard-money men and balanced budgeteers. Last week in Philadelphia Dr. Kemmerer ventured a prophecy on prices by the end of Depression. Said he: "We may reasonably expect that the cost of living, the wholesale and general price levels will be something like double what they are today...
...deposited in the Harvard Theatre Collection in Widener Library, for safe keeping, and in return for this gift, the Theatre Collection was to subsidize the necessary experimentation to have the originals salvaged. The interest of Henry M. Rogers '62, oldest living graduate of Harvard, and close friend of Edwin Booth's daughter, Edwina, was secured, and his generosity permitted the experimentation to proceed...
...amusing incident in connection with the discovery of the records was the finding of a cigar among the pile of papers. Close by was a note bearing the inscription, "This was the last cigar which Edwin Booth ever held in his mouth." The teeth marks were still apparent, for, though forbidden by his doctors to smoke, the dying actor was not to be denied the pleasure of keeping the cigar in his mouth...