Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess of Windsor, years ago in Washington when she was the wife of an impecunious U. S. Navy officer, used to send over her seamstress to copy Mrs. Gordon's gowns, by permission, when the latter would return from Paris with another trunkful. Of aristocratic Dutch descent, the U. S. Minister's wife, nee Vandergrift, has many friends, some relatives in The Netherlands...
...Washington there were definite signs that the curtain was coming down on what Correspondent Jay Franklin called "hot aeronautics" and "the prima donna type of aviator." The House Naval Affairs Committee prepared to consider legislation which would prohibit the Navy from undertaking costly searches for lost aircraft unless the latter were in regular commercial service or on missions of "unquestionable scientific value." Pilot Dick Merrill, who flies the Atlantic by dead reckoning, and Manhattan Columnist Mark Hellinger were bluntly refused permission to make a round-the-world flight. Snapped Assistant Secretary of Commerce Colonel John Monroe Johnson: "From...
...Poet Millay's ingenuity is the history-in-miniature effect gained by having Father Anselmo go home early, leaving the conversation to circle through such topics as Romantic Love, the Supreme Court, the Past, toward ever more pointed conflict between Broker Merton and Communist Carl. Finally the latter says...
...powder bombs. For some reason these bombs were left behind in a storehouse. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca, which had been dispatched from San Diego to Howland Island solely as a help to the flyers, would have been able to take directional bearings on the Earhart plane if the latter could have tuned its signals to a 500-kilacycle frequency. The plane's transmitter would have been able to send such signals if it had had a trailing antenna. Miss Earhart considered all this too much bother, no trailing antenna was taken along. Finally, the Itasca's, commander would have...
...more dangerous to the latter than Mayor Shields was a movement going forward among the Johnstown citizens who fortnight ago spent $50,000 advertising Johnstown's woes and protesting the interference of C.I.O. Last week it was learned that a guiding spirit among these citizens was John Price Jones, famed Manhattan publicist and fundraiser. A former resident of Johnstown, he had foregone his Harvard reunion to help formulate and promulgate nationally a "Johnstown Plan," calling for a chain of citizens' committees across the land to protect the right-to-work against exponents of the right-to-strike...