Word: robson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drought and fair weather had hopelessly split the delegates. And Britain's Sir Herbert Robson, head of the London Grain Exchange, split them further by growling: "I view with deep concern the increasing interference of governments with international trade. . . . The delegates are very charming diplomats, but very few of them know anything about wheat." Finally last week Argentina's Delegate Tomas A. Le Breton broke up the meeting by handing in Argentina's flat refusal to join in a minimum price agreement. That produced the climax all members had long been expecting. A subcommittee was named...
...influential names. Last month Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who had headed the Council after the death of John Grier Hibben, stepped up and out of the picture by becoming honorary president. To succeed him as president, the Council elected Mrs. August Belmont, who before her marriage was Actress Eleanor Robson. For her George Bernard Shaw wrote his ablest social service play, Major Barbara. Of late years Mrs. Belmont has been giving most of her energies to fund-raising for the relief of New York's jobless. For honorary vice presidents she had Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. James Roosevelt...
Best performances: Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)-, runner-up: May Robson (Lady...
Best Performance (actress): Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory, May Robson in Lady for a Day, Diana Wynyard in Cavalcade...
Score--Yale 3, Harvard 1. Goals--First period: Hasler (Moseley) (7.29). Second period: R. Shepard (Robinson-Rodd) (7.27), R. Shepard (18.22). Third period: Cooke (Robinson) (18.16). Penalties--First period: Robson (tripping), Stoddard (tripping), Gilligan (tripping), Gilligan (interference). Second period: Low (leg check), Robson (tripping), Watts (tripping), Wilmerding (charging), Robson (slashing). Third period: C. Mills (board check), Dow (hooking), Hasler (handling the puck), Beale (handling the puck), Robinson (holding). Referees--Cleary and Foley. Time--Three 20-minute periods...