Word: stewarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporter, Frederick Birchall and some 30 other correspondents gathered in the big, cream-walled conference room on the first floor of the Ministry to recite their grievances. Director General Eric Drummond Lord Perth (who later in the week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty 24 hours a day. Another proposal-that radio...
...late great Storeman of Boston, Edward Albert Filene (William Filene's Sons Co.) set up the Twentieth Century Fund, for "the improvement of economic, industrial, civic and educational conditions." Three years ago that well-heeled foundation slipped the leashes of two able fact-finders, Paul W. Stewart and J. Frederick Dewhurst, told them to make some sense out of the U. S.'s distribution machinery. Result (published last week): Does Distribution Cost Too Much, a survey which, but for war, might last week have been the biggest news to U. S. business. Its prime conclusions...
Back at the White House, tea became a New Deal question bee. Secretaries Hopkins, Wallace and Perkins were there; Robert Fechner (who promised the King a treatise on CCC), FHA's Stewart McDonald (who got on with the Queen immediately after telling her his family came from Skye). A. F. of L.'s William Green went (but C. I. O.'s John Lewis declined). Everyone was impressed by both the King's and the Queen's interest in U. S. housing. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her column: "It was interesting to me to find...
...polo enthusiasts sitting in Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands realized-a little sadly-that even this, Britain's best-of-all teams since the War (Bob Skene, Aidan Roark, Gerald Balding, Eric Tyrrell-Martin) was no match for the U. S. four: Mike Phipps, Tommy Hitchcock, Stewart Iglehart, Winston Guest. Fortnight ago, in the first of the two-out-of-three-game series, they were trounced 11-to-7. Last week the drubbing was even worse. The U. S. side won, 9-to-4, retained the Cup that has not crossed the Atlantic since...
...John G. Stewart...