Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army reservation some 31 mi. southwest of Louisville. Ky. The lady was the Director of the U. S. Mint, Nellie Tayloe Ross. The bricks were about $200,000,000 in gold, the Government's first bullion shipment to its great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox...
...Anglican, she first sermonized under the auspices of a rector who evaded the precedent by announcing : "The service is at an end. Miss Royden will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then set up as an independent minister at Guild-house in London's Eccleston Square. Possessor of an intellect vastly...
...only to William Randolph Hearst for his personal scoop of King Edward's determination to marry the Woman of the Year (TIME, Nov. 2), in the journalistic history of the great Simpson Story the name of Newbold Noyes ranked high for his intimate reports of his visit to Fort Belvedere ten days before the abdication (TIME, Dec. 28). Rare authenticity attached to this extraordinary series because Mr. Noyes, 45, is the dignified associate editor of the Washington Star, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, his father is president of the impeccable Associated Press, Mrs. Simpson is his cousin...
...credit to Green Bay's paper industry (Northern, Hoberg, Fort Howard mills), which employs 2,000 of the city's 13,000 workers. Cheese processing is Green Bay's second industry...
...Tuesday, Cousin Newbold was in vited to dinner at Fort Belvedere by the King. They dined about 8 o'clock in the evening and that afternoon the Bishop of Bradford had just uttered the fatal words about His Majesty's lack of church-going which brought Mrs. Simpson into British newspapers as the King's intended wife and occasioned His Majesty's abdication ten days later. Cousin Newbold found Cousin Wallis "still as gay, still as witty, but now she smiles more often than she laughs . . . diamonds and rubies . . . two orchids . . . bruised and sick at heart...