Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four Feathers (John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith; TIME...
...Married. John William Maxwell Ait ken, 29, fast-flying elder son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper publisher, Lord Beaverbrook (London Daily Express)* himself publisher of the Sunday Express; anc Cynthia Monteith; in London. An officer in the auxiliary air force, Aitken left ; few hours after the wedding to join hi newly mobilized unit...
Delano Forbes preferred to pass her remaining days in her Paris home. Cool and capable, she helped her sister pack, warmly embraced her, watched her motor off for Le Havre. Few hours later, aboard United States liner Washington, the President's mother joined Grandson John, his wife Anne Clark Roosevelt, who had been nervous as cats because "nobody ever knows what grandmother will do next," and their friends Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Robinson of Hollywood...
...Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, on the homeward passage shared three deck mattresses. To get ailing Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, his nurse, valet and physician accommodations, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy had to intervene. Others who squeezed in just under the sellout: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Financier John Pierpont Morgan; a man who described himself as "only a postage-stamp merchant," named James A. Farley, carrying an album of rare stamps given him by French Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Jules Julien...
...time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman John Gephart Munson, one of President Benjamin Fairless' new order of hardheaded operating men who believe in placating labor...