Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...included Mrs. Edna B. Conklin; President Edward D. Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime Congressman Franklin W. Fort, who emerged from political retirement to offer himself as a substitute for Governor Hoffman on the Landon slate. Mr. Fort's sole issue: the Governor's handling of the Hauptmann case (TIME, April 13). Said Republican Fort of Republican Hoffman: "No man has done more in my memory...
Last week Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt went to Texas to visit her grandson, Elliott Roosevelt, who lives with his second wife on a ranch near Fort Worth. Between trains in St. Louis she talked with newshawks about her son in the White House, declared: 'I can't see why anyone should criticize him. He is doing everything he possibly can for everyone." At Fort Worth one of her first queries to Grandson Elliott was: "Do you think your father gets his swims every day? I wish he wouldn't miss so many." Then to news hawks...
...King also belong the draughty palaces of Buckingham, Windsor, Sandringham, Balmoral, St. James's and livable little Fort Belvedere, all valued at about $25,000,000; their collections of old paintings valued at $5,000,000; books and documents worth $2,000,000; George V's stamp collection appraised at $2,000,000; the late Queen Alexandra's $3,000,000 jewelry collection; and the 1,000-piece gold dinner set in the vaults of Buckingham Palace ($10,000,000). Total...
...recent election. For the victory of the Left can be explained only by the fact that the French have made up their minds once and for all that the propositions of the Croix de Feu and the parties of the "interests" hold no lure any longer. In holding the fort against the attacks of the reactionaries during the trying days of the past year, the People's Front took a daring chance and won. It is proof of the theory that even under the most confusing multiple party system, men who find their safety definitely threatened can form their...
...would be killed. Day after he tells Berlin his story a shell gets him. At his funeral Berlin meets Kroysing's brother, a hard-bitten sapper lieutenant, tells him the story. Lieutenant Kroysing swears vengeance. He manages lo gel his brother's company transferred to the dreaded Fort of Douaumont, intends to keep them there until he gets a signed confession from the captain that he knowingly sent young Kroysing to his death...