Word: gooders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will Clayton, he claimed, had cleaned up $5 million through cotton sales abroad by his brokerage firm, at the same time that he was actively urging U.S. loans to foreign buyers. Said he: "Mr. Clayton is a well-known one-worlder in do-gooder circles, and I must admit that he does believe in one world-one world for Will Clayton and family...
Although boys are from 16 to 23 when they get sent to Borstals, two out of three go straight after their discharge. The one in three who doesn't (to judge by the headlines in London tabloids) generally makes Dillinger look like a do-gooder. But despite music-hall jokes about the Borstal old school tie, for every noisy failure the system can point to a quiet, honest accountant, truck-driver or farmer who learned his trade there. One of the Borstal prides & joys: an old boy who has now risen to become "director of three companies, with...
...messenger was Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish nobleman, Boy Scout enthusiast and general do-gooder who married U.S. Heiress Estelle Manville (Johns-Manville asbestos) in 1928. Recently he had been living near Hamburg, representing the Swedish Red Cross...
...days," your report says, "in a do-gooder atmosphere of maiden ladies, ministers, matrons, high-school students and professors, the Peoria convention drowsed...
Warm Hearts. For two days, in a do-gooder atmosphere of maiden ladies, ministers, matrons, high-school students and professors, the Peoria convention drowsed and listened to worthy speeches by Representative Will Rogers Jr., ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Federal Union's President Streit. Peoria's Hotel Père Marquette was suitably draped in red-white-&-blue bunting. The LaSalle Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn...