Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India-head of an empire that covers one-fourth of the earth's surface and has 500,000,000 subjects, would probably have been the envy of that ambitious little monarch Henry VIII. The luckless, unpopular Stuarts would have grown green with jealousy had they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost...
Forty thousand people crowded Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd.'s historic shipyard at Birkenhead. Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, only sister of the Duke of Windsor, said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head of Cammell Laird, was less restrained: "If I were in Chancellor Hitler's shoes and heard of the wonderful speed at which we can turn out our ships, I think I'd turn on my axis...
...Hutchins has two sons. Son Robert Maynard became president of University of Chicago at 30. Son Francis Stevenson became head of Yale-in-China...
Principal transaction of the meeting was to elect a new president, William Gibson Carey Jr. (head of Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., hardware), who in personal contacts is a kind of fun-loving Tom Rover. Drafted because he is "a victim of his friends" where Civic Virtue is concerned, President Carey explained that to him the Capitalist is "The Forgotten Man, 1939." He is committed to winning "commonsense legislation...
Marriage disclosed. Henry M. Blackmer, onetime Midwest Refining Co. head, fugitive from the U. S. since 1924, when he was wanted as witness in the Teapot Dome investigation; to Eide Norena, Norwegian soprano; in Paris. The French Foreign Office, fearing to offend the U. S., has withheld citizenship from Blackmer but let him go on living in Paris after his U. S. passport expired...