Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Members chortled at the policy of Home Secretary Sir John Simon in not having British police arrest Sir Oswald Mosley for his flagrant, daily violation of Parliament's recently enacted law barring in Britain the wearing of "political uniforms" such as a black shirt (TIME, Nov. 23). "I have worn this black shirt myself for six weeks!" cried Sir Oswald at a meeting of his BUF (British Union of Fascists). "Nothing has been done to me and we Fascists are beginning to assume that this black shirt I am wearing is not in the Government's view illegal...
Macy & Co. (mammoth Manhattan department store) when he did so well on a report about the linoleum industry that Executive Vice President Oswald Whitman Knauth made him his assistant. At 30, Mr. Hoving was himself a Macy executive vice president. In 1932 Sewell Lee Avery made him vice president & general sales manager of Montgomery Ward & Co. in 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...
...Banners with similar slogans are lifted high outside the iron gates of Buckingham Palace. Tory organs begin to call the demonstrations "suspiciously professional," perhaps the work of Communists, for several British Reds have come out for the King and Mrs. Simpson. So has the No. 1 British Fascist, Sir Oswald Mosley, shouting from a husting, "How would you like a Cabinet of old busybodies to pick your girl?" In Whitehall, Mr. Winston Churchill and his followers are now openly called "The King's Men," in Britain a most ominous title dating back to bloody affrays between Crown and Commons...
...British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, whose party holds not a single seat in Parliament, cracked back from his five-story Fascist Headquarters Building: "We demand that Simon produce his evidence. It is utterly untrue that the British Union of Fascists receives money from foreign sources! This looks to me like part of a frame-up by Parliament to get their bill through and fix Fascism if they...
...Edinburgh, where the British Labor Party in annual conference commended the Government's policy of non-intervention in Spain, Leader Herbert Morrison of the London County Council attacked non-intervention at home, snorted: "Sir Oswald Mosley's demonstration was consciously, deliberately and mischievously organized for the purpose of stimulating violence and racial strife in London. That was obvious to everybody long in advance and the Government had ample time and justification for preventing the thing. If the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, had been firm and clear, he would have acted in time...