Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlaw strikes in General Motors, several parts plants; the tactical weaknesses inherent for any union in a period of widespread layoffs; substantial concessions to management in contract renewals; a recent and violent intra-union factional flareup-all this impelled Mr. Martin to seek out unionism's new Great Father in Washington...
Bedded with gout at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister reshuffled his Cabinet as follows: Sir Kingsley Wood, formerly Health Minister, becomes Air Secretary; Lord Harlech, who had just entered the peerage because of his father's death, and who formerly as William Ormsby-Gore was Colonial. Secretary, is succeeded in that post by Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late great Ramsay; Lord Stanley becomes Dominions Secretary, the office vacated by Mr. MacDonald; and Major Walter Elliot is made Health Minister, relinquishing the Secretaryship for Scotland to Lieut. Colonel David John Colville, formerly Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
...Student Association. This spring, aided by Shirley Leche, svelte niece of Louisiana's governor, he toured the campus on a sound truck, held forth over loud speakers, plastered university grounds & buildings with screaming handbills. Black-haired, curly-headed, handsome Politician Long acts so much like his father on the platform that Baton Rouge townsfolk, who flocked to his pep meetings, enjoyed pretending that the late, egregious Senator was back again...
Died. Stephen Parrish, 91, a major U. S. etcher during the last century, father of famed Artist Maxfield Parrish; of old age; in Plainfield...
Born in St. Paul 48 years ago, Paul Shields grew up in Canada where his father was president of Dominion Iron & Steel Co. He graduated from Loyola, flunked out of Cornell Law, sold real estate, took a crack at investment banking and in 1923 went into the brokerage business for himself. Presently Shields & Co. was one of the largest wire houses in Wall Street with offices in 16 U. S. cities, four abroad. Paul Shields became something of a yachtsman and golfer, and his step-daughter married Gary Cooper, but reform in Wall Street remained his chief interest...