Word: millard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Wanderer still at loose in Germany could last week have learned some tricks from an engrossing tale* told by Englishman Oscar Millard, onetime London correspondent in Belgium now in Hollywood doing a movie version. He heard it from Paul Jourdain, whose father Victor was pre-War publisher of Le Patriote and Wartime publisher of La Libre Belgique (Free Belgium). The German occupants in Brussels silenced all other patriotic Belgian papers but in spite of all efforts Free Belgium defied the Germans to the very day of the Armistice, then carried on to become the fourth largest modern Belgian daily...
...flag over the U. S. Capitol is the American War Mothers. Only time War Mothers are allowed to exercise their privilege is Nov. 11. Last week War Mothers' President Mrs. Irving Fairweather watched the flag hoisted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Chief Lobbyist Millard Rice. The hoisting was followed by a speech from Florida's onetime (1933-37) Governor David Sholtz, a rendering of The Unknown Soldier, composed by the late Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin, by the U. S. Navy School of Music Band. Thus observed in the nation's capital last...
...long line of native kings-fat, pleasure-loving David Kalakaua, who liked to play poker for 48 hours at a stretch, died in 1891. Prince Koke's mother is Princess Kawananakoa, Hawaiian Republican National Committeewoman from 1924 to 1936 who recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house was: "I'm willing to take the rap." Still too drunk to give a coherent account of what...
...printers, the ruffled Brooklyn Eagle could thumb its beak last week at the C. I. O. American Newspaper Guild. Although about 300 editorial and business office Guildsmen were called out on strike after the Guild's demand for a contract was turned down, Publisher Millard Preston Goodfellow worked through day and night with a punctured staff, got out the regular evening editions while as many as 250 pickets booed from the sidewalk. Ten were arrested for disorderly conduct. Printers pierced the picket line to prepare evening editions, reminded the Guild of the contract between the Eagle and the International...
...Grand Army of the Republic, encamped last week in Madison, Wis. with only 200 oldsters to answer the roll call, doubts that pensions for World War veterans wdll follow the Bonus inevitably. For the V. F. W. the campaign opened with instructions for its able Washington Lobbyist, Millard W. Rice, to demand: 1) pensions or public jobs for every World War veteran, and 2) revision of the Social Security Act so that unemployable Foreign War Veterans can start drawing old-age pensions at 50 instead...