Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This speech, which created a furor of excitement in the House, showed clearly that Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd. (iron & steel) will go to Ottawa as the special champion of families which like his own have been leaders in British industry for generations. With the weapon of a tariff threat he will try to force the Dominions to abate their locally popular programs of fostering their own "infant industries...
Tall, lean, athletic, with neatly combed iron grey hair and blue eyes, he makes a good impression when he addresses the House. No ranter, he speaks to the point and is well prepared on the few subjects he selects to discuss. He waves his hands, indulges in a few oratorical flourishes but is otherwise logical and legalistic on his feet...
...Prince of Wales watched him sink a 20-ft. putt for a birdie on the 14th. At the 18th he needed a 4 for a 74. He smashed a perfect drive and asked his caddy, Ernest Daniels, "What club?" Caddy Daniels gave him the No. 3 iron. This last crucial shot was straight and safe. Two careful putts gave Sarazen a 72 hole total of 283, two strokes lower than Bobby Jones's record...
...England and Wales, where suicides' occupations are registered, analysis indicates that hotel and pub keepers are most susceptible to suicide. Next come chemists, druggists, lawyers, doctors, insurance solicitors, shopkeepers. Least susceptible are locomotive engineers, clergymen, railway guards, insurance office workers, printers, iron workers...
Died. James Abercrombie Burden, 61. sportsman, longtime president of Burden Iron Co.; of an embolism; in Syosset, L. I. On his estate stayed Edward of Wales...