Word: lombard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard S. Lombard-Ruth Wendell (Jackson...
...first public statement in its history, the Broederbond struck back at its ancient enemy Smuts, announced that the Bond would fight Smuts in & out of Parliament. Said the Bond's statement, signed by two members, Christoffel Johannes van Rooy and Ivanhoe Makepeace Lombard: "The Broederbond was born of a deep conviction that the Afrikaner nation was planted here by God's hand. The Prime Minister is trying to stone us in his ignorance...
Following an investigation in nearly all the major aircraft plants of Southern California, the report features contributions by Professors Elton Mayo, George F. F. Lombard, John B. Fox, and Jerome F. Scott. While the men concede that the financial loss in labor turnover and absenteeism resulting from neglect of worker morale can be over-looked by firms enjoying wartime prosperity, they assert that the defect may prove fatal to many companies in the highly competitive period expected after hostilities cease...
...uxorious Bourbon King Philip V, "who could not do without a woman in his bed, but who would allow into it no woman that was not his wife." This royal singularity Alberoni met with prelatical resourcefulness by promoting the charms of Princess Elisabeth Farnese of Parma as "a good Lombard girl . . . stuffed with butter and Parmesan cheese." Philip mar ried...
...Secretary Carol (Ella Raines) realizes that somebody has stopped a lot of mouths with a lot of money. She hounds the nervous bartender. He is killed by a car. She starts pumping the drummer. He is strangled. Escorted by her boss's good friend, Jack Lombard (Franchot Tone), she even locates the maker of the special hat and its elusive wearer. But nothing really becomes clear to her until Good Friend Lombard tips his paranoiac hand...