Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tattling nurse produced by Miss Astor named four women who at various times after the divorce had apparently spent the night with Dr. Thorpe. One of these, a blonde onetime showgirl named Norma Taylor*, was also recalled by a Los Angeles policeman. Dr. Thorpe had summoned him in after Miss Taylor, intoxicated, had invaded his dining room when he was eating with his daughter, brandished a candlestick, chased him upstairs, cornered him in a bathroom, plunged a fork into his thigh...
...time, gets along well with plain men when he sees them as individuals. But pursuit of the Big Money corrupts his native talents as well as his good nature, eventually kills him. Dos Passos frames the story of Anderson with thumbnail sketches of Henry Ford, Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor of scientific management; and Thorstein Veblen. Like Ford, Charley Anderson had native mechanical skill, loved to tinker with machines. Like Taylor, he suffered because he tried to speed up production, to make manufacture efficient, and shrank from the resulting hostility of workmen. Veblen, a lifelong student of the conflict between production...
...Lacy Haynes of the Kansas City Star. They knew, too, that, as he grappled with complex national issues, modest, provincial Governor Landon had gladly turned for help on phrases, facts, ideas to the four advisers who, he insists, are not a "brain trust"-Charles Phelps Taft II, Earl Howard Taylor, Ralph West Robey and Fred Donald Enfield...
Earl H. ("Zack") Taylor, 45, has been Governor Landon's agricultural consultant since last April. A longtime student of farmers' woes as chief editorial writer for The Country Gentleman, he had hitherto kept aloof from political schemes for their salvation. Short, stocky, argumentative Adviser Taylor was born on a Kansas farm, studied business law at University of Nebraska, worked on the Kansas City Star before going to The Country Gentleman in 1920. There he distinguished himself not only by studying and thinking harder about farmers than anyone else on the staff, but also by keeping on tap some...
ODYSSEY OF THE ISLANDS-Carl N. Taylor-Scribner ($3). Description of a journey through rarely-traveled parts of the Philippines, illustrated by photographs. Author Taylor was killed in New Mexico last February by his house boy, a member of the Penitentes (TIME. March...