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...Baldwin's Secretary for Home Affairs (1924-29); of heart disease and lung congestion developed from a cold caught on a West Indian cruise; in London. Abandoning law in favor of politics, Lord Brentford first gained fame by defeating Winston Churchill for a Parliament seat in 1906. A stanch Conservative, he first obtained office in Bonar Law's 1922 cabinet, was made Home Secretary two years later, successfully handled the coal strike and the general strike...
...reading your May 9 issue with great interest when I came upon the story of Walter Hoving and his new position with Montgomery Ward & Co. of whom we were once stanch customers back in the summer lake-months in northern Minnesota. But what interested me mostly was your phrase "entered Macy's 'training school...
...stanch Republican, he had refused to sign a draft order permitting soldiers & sailors dismissed for anti-Republican leanings to return to the service. "Never will I sign!" roared Admiral Becerqueira...
...investigation starting this week will be made by the Banking & Currency Committee, chairmanned by Senator Peter Norbeck, onetime South Dakota well-digger. A stanch believer that short sellers are vicious and their influence destructive, Senator Norbeck went about his new task enthusiastically last week. When asked what effect his inquiry would have on the stock market, he almost yelled...
...Manhattan Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute, who, 68, is just twice as old as Dr. Rhoads, demonstrated how stanch a friend he is to every member of his staff. They had worked together for two years on the in fantile paralysis problem, and Dr. Flexner could vouch for the validity of the explanation which Dr. Rhoads last week sent to Governor Beverley: "Regret very much that fantastic and playful composition written entirely for my own diversion and intended as parody on supposed attitude of some American minds in Porto Rico should have become public document and taken...