Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...iron for Japan. It occurred to him that it takes something besides bandages for China to fight scrap iron for Japan, and that the peaceful artisans of Hollywood have most to lose from the world rise of militarism and dictatorship. He talked with Actors Melvyn Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. They all talked with Clark Eichelberger, a League of Nations advocate and chairman of the Committee for Concerted Peace Efforts. After a series of parlor parleys in the best Hollywood manner, they emerged with a "Declaration of Democratic Independence," phrased with care not to desecrate the original, in which they...
Born. To Evelyn Walker Robinson ("Evie") Robert, 29, beauteous Washington hostess, columnist (Eve's Rib) in the Washington Times (see p. 34); and Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., 51, secretary of the National Democratic Committee; a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...
...responsible for aligning votes to beat Leader Barkley and the Administration in this first big Senate showdown of the year, was Pat Harrison. The result showed how much wiser Franklin Roosevelt might have been had he let that shrewd old reliable from Mississippi win the Majority Leadership after Joe Robinson died, instead of intervening for "Dear Alben." Leader Barkley, however, was up against not only Garner, Adams, Byrnes, Harrison & Co., he was also up against a Trend. Of 35 Senators elected or re-elected last November, 21 voted for Economy...
...Church murmured its "yes," and commissions set about drawing up a marriage agreement (TIME, June 6). For purposes of discussion, an agreement was published last autumn. By last week, when a Presbyterian-Episcopal conference was held in Buffalo, the wooing had reached such a pitch that Editor Stewart MacMaster Robinson of The Presbyterian declared: "Ecclesiastical love-making must not make us forget the unsaved world...
...first lecture was given by Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature who spoke on Beowulf. The talks and reading are all of an informal nature and provide an opportunity for discussion...