Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barton dropped the column before his election to Congress from Manhattan's Republican "silk-stocking" district (1937), has long itched to resume it. Still hustling and hopeful at 63, Bruce Barton says: "I sometimes wrote [when I was younger] as though I knew all the answers. The years soften and finally annul that idea...
...late John Jacob Astor; he is also the spiritual heir of a hundred proud Orthodox princes of Muscovy. Ivan's father, Prince Serge Obolensky, renounced his own Czarist title to become a U.S. citizen, eventually became manager of Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland Hotel. But even though Colonel Obolensky married an Episcopalian Astor, he brought his son up strictly in the Orthodox faith and hoped he would marry...
...Felix McGinnis, whose late husband was a railroad vice president (The Southern Pacific), was just as staunchly Roman Catholic. For her pretty daughter Claire, obviously nothing would do but a Catholic wedding. Ivan and Claire themselves, pious though they might be, were breathless with the thousand and one urgencies of a society betrothal. The ancient schisms of the Christian church can seem far removed, sometimes, from the exciting immediacies of Park Avenue...
Lotion-maker Andrew Jergens, who relentlessly advertised the charm of soft hands, was no soft touch for labor unions. Though the A.F.L. Cosmetic Workers were certified in 1941 as bargaining agent for Jergens' 150 employees in his Burbank, Calif, plant, Jergens refused to bargain even after the National War Labor Board ordered...
...strike ended, and the workers quit the union. Nevertheless, an appeals court found Jergens guilty of unfair labor practices and ordered him to bargain with the union. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that decision, thus requiring Jergens to sit down and bargain with the Teamsters even though the union may no longer represent any of his employees...