Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations Association, the League of Women Voters, the National Committee of One Hundred for Law Enforcement, the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, the League for Permanent Peace and the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Throughout the Churches. A Republican. Miss Woolley supported the Democrats in 1920 because they were pledged to the League of Nations. As a "theoretical pacifist," she was blacklisted by several chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution...
...Ludwig crashed the Stalin gate by rushing to Moscow as the representative of Germany's most potent daily, the Berliner Tageblatt. Shrewdly Tageblatt had raised a rumpus about an innocuous pact of non-aggression now being negotiated between Russia and Poland. Did that mean the end of Russo-German friendship? Did it mean Russian support for the Treaty of Versailles and the Polish Corridor? Germany must know! Stalin must speak! ? such was the smart Tageblatt-Ludwig gate-crashing approach. Stalin spoke...
...Thus was heightened a longtime friendship between Senator Reed and Mrs. Donnelly, who attended the 1928 Democratic National Convention to help boom him for President. Her rise to prominence began with small scale experiments in selling a type of housedress ("Nelly Don") which she had designed. Now she heads the Donnelly Garment Co. which has grossed as high as $3,750,000 in a year...
...century he became prominent in both banking and shipping, lived quietly, reinvested his increasing fortune. He was raised to the peerage in 1919 after he became Minister of Munitions. During the War he was Surveyor General of Supplies, directed the expenditure of over $2,400,000,000. His close friendship with Sir Thomas began in 1927 when he became chairman of Marconi Co. and a director of Lloyd's Bank. In his will Sir Thomas appointed him one of six trustees of his estate, estimated at $3,910,000. Lord Inverforth is now chairman of the trustees...
Biographer Pringle cites as his source p. 4 of Roosevelt, the Story of a Friendship (Macmillan, 1930) by Mr. Spalding's Classmate Owen Wister. Biographer Pringle was not aware Classmate Wister stood corrected. For the statement that Roosevelt at one time thought he had been champion, Biographer Pringle refers to the legislative scrapbooks at the Roosevelt Memorial Association...