Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition, began a series of articles for a newspaper syndicate led by the Wet New York Times. After eight years' experience, she prepared to say whether Prohibition was enforceable, whether it could be made popular, who was to blame for its nonenforcement et al. Excerpts...
...career as a half-time hand in a cotton mill. He became the most ruggedly potent figure in British textile trade unionism. He recently turned up in the Empire's new Labor cabinet as His Majesty's Right Honorable Secretary of State for War. Last week generals fumed, colonels smarted, and subalterns rolled out rich round oaths-all because War Minister Shaw, at a rally of Socialist constituents, had bellowed what they considered mollycoddle sentiments respecting Egypt. To a British fighting man Egypt is the last country on earth which the Empire can afford to mollycoddle. Egypt with...
Another idea of his was "A Business Man's Plan for Settling the War in Europe," developed in 1915. The nations ignored it. But some of his suggestions have grown into the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War proclaimed at the White House last week. However the civilian honored by invitation to watch the ceremony was not Charles L. Bernheimer. but Salmon Oliver Levinson, also a Jew, who has developed similar thoughts more strongly, more largely (TIME...
George Bruce Cortelyou, 67, progressively Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor, Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury, since 1909 president of New York's Consolidated Gas Co., is especially alert against gas asphyxiation among his customers and generally interested in overcoming suffocation from any cause. Last week, after a gas company superintendent had successfully resuscitated a man unconscious 383 hours in a local hospital, Mr. Cortelyou donated the city a dozen resuscitators, costing $3,000 each...
Elected. Max R. Marston, national amateur golf champion in 1923, member of the American Walker Cup team, 1922-24; to be a general partner of Otis & Co., banking house, in charge of the Philadelphia office...