Word: ellen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kent, Conn, one Samuel McWhinnie, 42, was charged with burglary for having broken into a shed on the Hyde Park estate of Miss Ellen Roosevelt, cousin of the President, and stealing four small sailboat models which Franklin Roosevelt carved with his own hands...
...Miss Ellen Wilkinson, the tiny Member for Jarrow whose "hunger marchers" have recently been snubbed in London,* tackled the Cabinet's wealthy shipping tycoon, President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman, thus: "Can the President say why, in the case of two American magazines of high repute which have been imported into this country, during the last few wrecks at least two and sometimes three pages have been torn...
...department has nothing to do with that." answered President Runciman. When "Wee Ellen" attempted to question the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who heads the department concerned, Speaker Fitzroy of the House of Commons refused to permit her question. Skating on thin ice, London editors of popular news-organs, still afraid to print the Simpson story, asked their bewildered readers under screaming headlines "WHAT IS THIS THING WHICH THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT ALLOWED...
...talent stretched over 100 years seldom produces a genius. Nevertheless two living Emmets of the third generation have considerable reputations among society portraitists: Lydia Field Emmet, Ellen Emmet Rand. Of greatest interest to gallery goers was Lydia Field Emmet's boyhood portrait of her nephew, the best-known contemporary of the clan, lanky playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight...
...German Government's execution of a German Communist last week in Hamburg, and thus arouse individual British Labor sympathizers to chalk London Streets last week with anti-Nazi slogans and hurl bricks through the windows of new German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop. Brick-throwing Laborite Miss Ruth Ellen Gastar screamed in police court: "The people of the British Government wine and dine with Ribbentrop, but the British people do not want these Nazi murderers...