Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swamped with work a few weeks ago, a private secretary named Thelma Goldman in the Detroit headquarters of the United Automobile Workers asked for help, was promptly provided with a trim young blonde fresh from a secretarial school. Put to work on routine typing, the new stenographer tended strictly to business. After a fortnight she went to Thelma Goldman, said: "Maybe you'll think I'm dumb, Thelma, but I still don't know what you people manufacture...
...Once during Detroit's sit-down epidemic last winter, Thelma Goldman went to a nearby beauty shop, found the two attending operators eager to join a union. Explaining that U. A. W. was for automobile workers, not beauticians, Miss Goldman obligingly telephoned the local A. F. of L. headquarters to send up an organizer. Quite willing, the A. F. of L. man only wanted to know one thing: who owned the beauty shop. Proudly the beauticians told Miss Goldman...
Married. Glenn Foster ("Slats") Hardin, 21, holder of the 400-metrer hurdles world record, twice (1932-36) Olympic champion; and Margaret Thelma Riddle, 22, daughter of a Louisiana State Representative; in Washington...
...Pittsburgh last week fashionable clothes were being shown by Thelma, Lady Furness who introduced Mrs. Simpson, the onetime Miss Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, to H.R.H. Last week Lady Furness' sister, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, said: "Yes, Mrs. Simpson is a good friend of my sister and of mine. And I have also had the honor of meeting the King. We don't see why people ask us about them-really ! It makes my sister very...
...dropped it in Pete's lap. When he returned for it, after the police released him, Pete poked him in the nose, kept the money. He thereby added another enemy to the horde interested in seeing him captured. When Pete found favor in the cold blue eyes of Thelma, a restaurant hostess, new worries beset him: Thelma loved to manage people, and thought she knew how to get him out of his mess. She tried to do so primarily by confiding in stool pigeons. Pete learned that her best friend was an ex-street-walker with whom...