Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Ward Culver, attorney for an organization of Ford workers called the Liberty Legion of America, Inc., announced its dissolution "as an independent labor organization" and attributed the action to talks between Martin & Bennett. Garrulous Homer Martin was said to have gushed in private that Ford would be glad to set him up at the head of a union, perhaps confined to Ford workers and unaffiliated with C. I. O. Henceforth Mr. Harry Bennett, whether he made himself so or was made so by the factionalists. may have to be taken into account as a big figure...
...then, he made sure that he would choose his successor on the bench. Then from his glassed enclosure on Third Street, he watched Jay Cooke, Philadelphia's G. O. P. chairman, stride majestically along in the inaugural parade, saw pass the proud banner from Philadelphia's 26th Ward: "Home Ward of Late U. S. Senator WILLIAM S. VARE Honoring His True Friend GOV. ARTHUR H. JAMES...
...years, bustling Kenneth Collins has continued to get his name and picture in the papers, discussing anything from business conditions (which he usually approved) to women's fashions (which he didn't). Three years ago Mr. Howard left Gimbel's to direct advertising for Montgomery Ward, and three weeks ago Mr. Collins also left Gimbel...
Central figure of The Great Man Votes is a broken-down Harvard professor who, at the death of his wife, gives way to drink and inertia. An accident of ward politics makes this picturesque bum of crucial importance in a municipal election. How this situation affects him and his lively little son and daughter is revealed by Director Kanin with a maximum of warm, perceptive humor, a decent minimum of emotional climaxes...
...year. In their Greenwich, Conn. home Frank and Anne figure out the trends of their serials four to six weeks in advance, dictate outlines to a battery of stenographers. Outline for an episode (Backstage Wife) may read something like this: "Suspecting that Cynthia Valcourt murdered Candy Dolan with Ward Ellman's gun, after Tess left the fiat, Mary, Larry and Ward rush to Tony Valcourt's penthouse to have a talk with Tony and Cynthia, having sent Tess Morgan to her apartment. Arriving at the penthouse, they are refused admittance by the butler. . . . If Cynthia gets away, Tess...