Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously a mere whaling conference was small-time stuff for such a big-time Nazi. While in London he sought out Robert Spear Hudson, British Government economic expert and Secretary for Overseas Trade. Not a member of the Cabinet, Mr. Hudson nevertheless is one of His Majesty's Ministers. He led a "revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would...
...grandparents fled Germany after the revolts against the tottering Metternich absolutism in 1848. When Wendell was born in 1892 his father, Herman Willkie, was a lawyer and a wealthy landowner in the town of Elwood, Ind. (pop. 10,685). His mother was also a lawyer, the first woman member of the Indiana bar, and besides tending her family (six children, of whom Wendell was the third) helped her husband in his law practice. Elwood was then riding high. Natural gas had been discovered and the supply was so plentiful that no one took the trouble to turn out the street...
Curtain's Fall. In 1933 smart, aggressive Harvard-man Dave Lilienthal, who had been fighting the ogre of private ownership as a member of the Wisconsin utility commission, took over TVA. Member of a three-man board, he dominated it from the start, became chairman two years ago when old Arthur Ernest Morgan, onetime president of Antioch (work-learn) College, was fired after a spectacular battle against Lilienthal policies. From the start utilitymen never doubted that Dave Lilienthal intended to run every private utility out of the Tennessee Valley...
That admission became the headache of tall Emil Schram, 45, who became Jesse Jones's successor as RFC Chairman. A successful Hoosier whose business was farming, timber, coal, he was made a member of RFC's board in 1936. From handling RFC loans to needy drainage and irrigation districts he was graduated to manager of RFC's business loan program. On the side he ran Electric Home and Farm Authority (set up to finance the sale of electrical appliances to home owners). One of the most capable members of RFC, his selection was backed both by conservative...
...about Paris. He is an outstanding French ethnographer who has the frozen field of Eskimo doings pretty much to himself. He speaks fluently their polysyllabic language which for most people is as tough as a piece of walrus gristle. At Kangerdlugssuatsiaq, he lived for six months as a member of the Eskimo community, records his observations of life in a crowded igloo in a 349-page book, whose footnotes and appendices are often more exciting than the rather disjointed text...