Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board was Edward R. Stettinius Jr.-also chairman of U. S. Steel. Serving with him were no Laborites, no Little Businessmen, no Janizaries. Instead, there were such Big Businessmen as A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, General Motors' John Lee Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned elsewhere for counsel. When Louis Johnson announced that Mr. Stettinius as chairman of W. R. B. would wield vast administrative powers in wartime, the evidence seemed...
...request, the Communist weekly New Masses dropped from its masthead the name of salty "Robert Forsythe" (real name: Kyle Crichton of Collier's). George Wishnak, onetime business manager of the acrobatic Daily Worker, explained his withdrawal from the Party: "Anyone . . . who continues to affiliate himself with or to express sympathy for the elements that support this alliance of Soviet Russia with Nazi Germany, if he is to be consistent, must pray for a Hitler victory. This I refuse...
...Majesty is the first Scotswoman in over eight centuries to marry an English King, the first since Henry I married Matilda in noo A.D. She is descended from Sir John Lyon, the adventurous Thane of Glamis who in 1376 won as his bride Princess Jean, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland. Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, goes back to an earlier legendary period, but tourists still visit the Queen's ancestral home Glamis (pronounced Glahms) Castle to see where "Macbeth did murder Duncan," King of Scotland...
...Daily Princetonian had nothing to say editorially about war. But Editor Robert P. Hazlehurst admitted: "There's not much doubt as to how Princeton men feel about the war: we are naturally biased in favor of the Allies." Meanwhile at Vassar College, in the Miscellany, Editor Nancy Mclnerney of South Bend, Ind., spoke for young womanhood: "We don't want our husbands shot. We favor the cash-and-carry act because it is more neutral...
Athens, the goddess of justice, finally smiled yesterday on long suffering Robert (Apple) Orchard...