Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throne that King George and Queen Mary were the perfect exemplars of British constitutional monarchy. . . . King Edward, however, has chosen to go his own way. . . . This has given rise to a considerable amount of bitterness and has split high society into two sections. . . . Mr. Simpson regards the friendship of his wife and the King as purely platonic...
...love." The New York World-Telegram, leading organ of the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain, followed this with front-page pictures six inches high of Queen Mary and Mrs. Simpson side by side-the Scripps-Howard story being that Her Majesty "disapproves of the King's open friendship for American-born" Mrs. Simpson and has taken up an attitude of "protest...
...wife of divorced Mrs. Simpson's present husband was discovered living in reduced circumstances with his attractive daughter Audrey at No. 1331 Madison Ave. Said the first Mrs. Simpson: "I wish to emphasize that I do not wish anything I may say to imply criticism of the alleged friendship of the present Mrs. Simpson with His Majesty. I admire her a great deal and am fond of her as I have known her. If what the newspapers say of my former husband's present financial standing is true. Audrey and I wish he could find it possible...
...president for the coming year is Tom K. Smith of St. Louis' Boatmen's National Bank. Banker Smith is unlikely to depart from Mr. Fleming's policy of friendship with a Democratic Administration. A Democrat himself, he served for a while under Secretary Morgenthau as a Treasury adviser. White-haired, ruddy well-brushed President Smith wears his Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain, said last week: "I am convinced that there is no problem in banking confronting us today which research, education and co-operation cannot solve. They are the bulwarks upon which I base...
Meantime, anti-New Dealers have been hardly less active in calling public attention to the President's Communist backing than New Dealers have been in harping on the Liberty League's friendship for the Republican nominee. Publisher William Randolph Hearst has put a charge of Red fire in his daily blast against the New Deal. Last month Col. Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick shocked his Chicago Tribune readers with this scarehead: MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U. S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT. Featured in the GOPress was the resignation of James Casey as managing editor of Manhattan's Communist Daily...