Word: named
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York) again postponed definition of his Farm Policy, declared the objectives of his Business Policy. Best lines: "Stop being half way for a sort of creeping socialism and half way for private enterprise. Get down on one side of the fence. ... If any businessman violates the law name him, indict him, convict him, fine him, jail him. But stop bringing the whole of a group into disrepute and discouragement. . . . Admit that excessive public expenditures have to be tapered off gradually. And start doing it. Start just a trend toward solvency...
...Golaz is his wife's maiden name, adopted as is the custom of many Swiss...
...last week that three British cruisers brilliantly defeated the Admiral Graf Spee (see above), two of the Navy's warships collided somewhere at sea and the destroyer Duchess went to the bottom with 129 men. The Admiralty refused to divulge either the place of the collision or the name of the other ship, but it could not conceal the fact that this was Britain's fourth largest naval disaster...
...women to go up in a flying machine (with Claude Grahame-White in 1910), one of the first to drive an automobile, one of the first to wear breeches and ride astride. In 1909, when she was known as "the best-gowned woman in America" and her name romantically linked with that of Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Eleo caused a stir by appearing at California's swank Burlingame Country Club in "unconventional trousers," asked if she could join in the polo practice of a British international team...
...Himalaya Mountains, Nov. 5, 1913, she spent the first five years of her life in Calcutta, about which she remembers nothing. Later she attended convent school near London with Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan. Still later Vivien Leigh studied dramatics. Married in 1932 to Barrister Leigh Holman (whose first name plus her own first name she uses for a stage name), she has a little girl. After The Mask of Virtue, in which, says Cinemactress Leigh, "I played a tart," she had small parts in Fire Over England...