Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VIII and pick Sir Thomas Inskip to co-ordinate Imperial Defense. At the time of this surprise appointment (TIME. March 23) British wiseacres called it a "typical Baldwin bumble'' and predicted that the Prayer-Book Knight as an Imperial Defender would "outbumble Baldwin." Today Sir Thomas, like Lord Swinton, "misses a great deal of knowledge by his lack of tact," but Mrs. Baldwin is firmly convinced that he is as right as King Edward was wrong and that "character is more important than ability...
...glad to suffer so much on the day of Our Lord's Nativity...
Most envied airman fighting with the Reds in Spain was Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
...Chicago, told him to put sex appeal into Ward's catalog, packaging, merchandising. Walter Hoving did a good job.- Last spring his old boss, Oswald Whitman Knauth, now president of Associated Dry Goods Corp., which controls eight U. S. department stores, led by Manhattan's Lord & Taylor, found Mr. Hoving ready to return East...
Back in Manhattan, Mr. Hoving rented a 15-room Park Avenue apartment for himself and Mrs. Hoving, the former Mary Osgood Field, became vice president of Associated and chairman of its smart Fifth Avenue store. Lord & Taylor. Last week Mr. Knauth announced that "owing to increased duties devolving around the central office," Chairman Hoving of Lord & Taylor would become president as well, succeeding Joseph E. Pridday, who will be an associated vice president...