Word: harmsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wood Jr., 19-year-old son of the famed U. S. speedboat racer who has held the Harmsworth Trophy since 1920: the national outboard motorboat championship for amateurs (Class A and Class B); on the muddy James River; at Richmond...
Died. Mary Lilian Share Harmsworth, Lady Rothermere, wife of the London publisher; of cancer of the stomach; near Cannes, France...
...private life but was influenced by her in public affairs, especially foreign politics. His behaviour to his mother, Queen Mary, is notoriously bad and was instigated by Mrs. Simpson. His professions of great concern for the unemployed which were used by his clique of cronies, headed by Esmond Harmsworth, as the weapon to upset the Government were rather insincere when compared with the facts. He gave ?10, ($50) on his Welsh visit, for the unemployed. On the other hand, he dismissed hundreds of employees at Balmoral & Sandringham, and sold off everything on these properties which was salable, and with...
London's sidewalk artists reap a harvest of Sunday coppers by drawing Mrs. Simpson in colored crayon. Meanwhile King Edward at his snuggery declines to receive his friend and recent guest in Scotland, the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere. In his great, mass-conscious penny-press thunders Rothermere: "I have just returned from a trip around the world. . . . Everywhere unstinted praise and admiration of our King! . . . You cannot smuggle the greatest living Englishman off the throne of England during the weekend...
...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth is understood to have tried to see His Majesty as a spokesman for the "King's Men," now grown to 90 M.P.'s and their leader Mr. Winston Churchill who keynotes: "If an abdication were to be hastily extorted, the outrage so committed would cast its shadow forward across many chapters of the future history of the British Empire!'' Mr. Baldwin is again with the King at the snuggery from 6:15 to 7:30. Says Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, in mortal terror lest the Irish Free State make whatever...