Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Palmer House one day last week rose speaker after speaker to pledge renewed allegiance to Liberty, the Constitution and the American Way of Life, assure his fellow members of the Republican National Committee that they had fought a good fight, been beaten only by the New Deal's unbeatable Relief funds. Vice President-reject Frank Knox generously conceded that the return of prosperity and Republicans' failure to "popularize" their issues had had something to do with it. The only harsh words at the consolation party came from two uninvited guests...
...Sunday the Queen had recovered enough from influenza to attend church with His Majesty and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, but to bed with influenza went the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, while the Duchess of Kent remained secluded in expectation of her child (TIME, Oct. 19). In their absence H. M. Mary, the Queen Mother, H. M. the King, H. M. the Queen, and H. R. H. the Duke of Kent bore the brunt of what His Majesty in his accession address called the "heavy tasks" of the Royal Family...
...year's profits were $1,079,000. President of Motor Products since 1935 has been Antone Lyman Lott, 50, whose service with the company dates to its founding. A graduate of the University of Nebraska (Class of 1907) in electrical engineering, he got into selling 20 years ago, rose to become Motor Products' sales manager, later general manager. Where he will fit in the new setup has not been announced...
Last month when the motion of a Sinclair triumph was pervading the final hearings on the plan, Harry Sinclair made one of his stage gestures. In court rose his attorney, onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, to say that since some of the creditors appeared to think that Mr. Sinclair wanted to dominate the new company, Mr. Sinclair was willing to withdraw from rehabilitated Richfield's board of directors. Expostulating gently, the re-organization committee hastened to assure Mr. Hurley that it very much wanted Mr. Sinclair on the board. Other board members will be President...
...final gesture was also Harry Sinclair's. When Judge James last week found it beyond his lawful power to grant Richfield's reorganization committee more than $160,000 of its $381,000 five-year expense account, Attorney Hurley rose again, announced that Rio Grande Oil would gladly put up the difference...