Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then up to a Washington microphone stepped Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to broadcast the charge that President Roosevelt's opponent was nothing but a stooge for the Master of San Simeon...
...doing on the road but for Kempton-who confessed quite unashamedly to playing these tricks on his employes-to lie in ambush for the drivers in this sort of way is absolutely repellent to any person who has any feeling for the principles that should prevail between master and servant...
Born to an old Cornish landowning family in 1754, Bligh went to sea at the age of 7, was sailing-master for Captain Cook at 22. On Cook's last voyage he acquitted himself well when that great explorer was killed by savages, had gained considerable reputation for his courage and swift decisions by 1787, when he was given command of the Bounty for her ill-fated voyage transporting breadfruit trees from the South Seas to the West Indies. Although Dr. Mackaness roundly insists that Bligh was considerate of his men. quotes heretofore unpublished material to prove it, trouble...
...Cabinet members and Mrs. John C. Calhoun, wife of the Vice President, refused to receive her because gossip said she had been Secretary baton's mistress. The President defended Peggy, reorganized his Cabinet largely on her account. After John Eaton died in 1856, Peggy married an Italian dancing master. She soon divorced him, returned to the U. S., lived quietly in Washington until her death...
...redoubtable Major Edward Bowes, still Radio's No. i attraction with his famed Amateur Night.- Under the sponsorship of Walter P. Chrysler (TlME, June 22), Major Bowes will move his show from Sunday to Thursday nights, from N. B. C. to C. B. S. There the bland master of ceremonies of the amateur hour will compete for listeners with a "Show-boat" captained by Yale's Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross...