Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after this scene Premier Ramsay MacDonald boarded a seaplane at Lossiemouth and flew St. George's Channel to the Marquess of Londonderry's house at Mount Stewart. County Down, Northern Ireland. In Ireland observers leaped to the conclusion that he was there to hold a series of secret meetings with de Valera representatives on the annuities problem. Some added an additional detail: Scot MacDonald's trip to Ireland was at the request of delegates to the Ottawa conference (see p. 12) who are restless for an early solution. All these stories Scot MacDonald went to great...
...York slums. It shattered most of his dreams about the nobility of the downtrodden. Upon the wreckage, amid the dirt and filth of Spring Street, he built up a practical philosophy about the masses which serves him to this day. In 1910 he married Frances Violet Stewart. Their honeymoon was spent on a tandem bicycle. Born to the Presbyterian Ministry, he went through Union Theological Seminary, emerging, after a newsworthy dispute with his elders on tenets, a Bachelor of Divinity...
Energetic Editor Swanson went after big-name contributors. Many of them appeared only once; sometimes their contributions would be brief or palpably second-rate. Occasionally ? as in the case of Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound and Noel Coward's Private Lives which had already been produced on the stage ? they were comparatively stale. But the names on the cover, names like Alec Waugh. George Jean Nathan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wallace Irwin, were impressive...
Rebuffed by Borah, the convention next nominated for the Presidency redheaded, wrinkled-faced William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, spry cripple, onetime (1919-27) Representative from Georgia. Frank Stewart Regan of Illinois was given the Vice-Presidential nomination. An ardent prohibitor but also a humble man, Nominee Upshaw announced that he would retire if Senator Borah or some other "outstanding figure" would agree to head a third party Dry ticket...
...County Trust Co. of White Plains, N. Y. Banker Rowley entered his profession at the age of 15, when he became an employe of Bank of Nova Scotia. No reason for the resignation was given except that Banker Rowley would take a long rest. He was succeeded by John Stewart Baker, 38, chairman of Manhattan Co. as his father was before...