Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week such a Ministry was finally created. In wartime it will see that Government orders get precedence, that businesses get fair but limited profits. All England wondered whether Neville Chamberlain would give the Ministry to an aggressive man of action-Winston Churchill, for example. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons and announced that the job would go to the 51-year-old Milquetoast Minister of Transport, Dr. Edward Leslie Burgin, one uninhibited Laborite shouted the unexpressed sentiment of most of Parliament...
Laborites. Robert Menzies slowly rose to his feet. His voice trembled as he began to speak. If the Country Party had closed the door to coalition for reasons of high policy, he said, he could respect it, but it had been closed for reasons which were offensive, personal, paltry, irrelevant. The House cheered. But when Robert Menzies later went knocking for ministers, he found the Country Party door not only closed but bolted and barred. Even so, early this week he finally succeeded in forming his Cabinet...
Author of most of the Telegram's weather stories is a thin, sharp-featured little man named Harry Allen Smith.* Raised in Huntington, Ind., he quit school after the eighth grade to work as a proofreader on the local paper, rose to write funeral notices, sports, a column. Smith saw the U. S. as an itinerant reporter, worked five years for United Press as a feature writer, landed on the Telegram three years ago. He once began an interview with Cinemactress Simone Simon thus: "Your reporter walked straight up to her, without so much as a hello, and tickled...
...boasts, however, that opening day will find the fair about 99% completed. Farthest from completion is the huge amusement section, but even there some 65 separate diversions are ready. One thing World's Fair veterans may find lacking is sex. Despite announced appearances of such numbers as Delia ("Rose Dance") Carroll, who once lifted Adolf Hitler's brows several pegs, Grover Whalen last week insisted that there would be nothing at the fair to shock anyone...
...Rose Hill, Va., Mr. & Mrs. Steve Pace have lived to see their 16th child married. Last week the Paces, nearing their 74th birthdays, announced the imminent birth of child...