Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...losing racehorses. A onetime rubber in a Turkish bath establishment, he saved his tips, opened a bathhouse of his own in 1890. First all-night establishment in the city, it prospered promptly, enabled Bathhouse John to get a grip on the Democratic vote of Chicago's First Ward which he has never lost. Huge, burly, white-haired, he keeps sacks of potatoes and bread to dole out to his constituents in his office opposite City Hall. A master at achieving personal publicity, he once objected strongly to a newspaper article, not because he was described as a thief...
...scrupulous accuracy in sets characteristic of current British productions and the over-dignified pace characteristic of less recent ones, I Stand Condemned is principally notable for its personnel. Its director was Anthony Asquith, bright young offspring of onetime Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. Its heroine is Socialite Penelope Dudley-Ward. Its hero, the profiteer Brioukov, is Harry Baur, most famed cinemactor in France, making his English-speaking screen debut...
...mimeographed copies of the questionnaire, indignantly read therein: "Do you believe in God? Do you believe in any of the doctrines of Communism? Have you ever been in Russia? Do you approve of the writings of Charles A. Beard?" Stormed wiry, liberal U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker: "The implications of the situation in the District of Columbia are of great significance. . . . We can tolerate no dictatorial censorship of thinking and learning." Promptly the convention thundered through a resolution condemning loyalty oaths, the Blanton Rider, "curbs on freedom of teaching...
...politics was superlatively interesting. George Slocombe, like most of his British colleagues, is tired of it, remembers so much that he cannot recall what is important. He pays tribute to the race of Britain's foreign correspondents which largely disappeared with the 1920's: Wickham Steed, George Ward Price, Martin Donohoe, William Bolitho Ryall, Gordon Knox, Sisley Huddleston. Mournfully he adds...
Besides being a famed statistician, Roger Ward Babson is a pious Congregationalist who presents a Bible to every new employe in his organization at Wellesley Hills, Mass. He wrote Religion and Business and numerous other books on similar subjects. Last week in South Hadley, Mass. 1,500 Congregationalists and Christians at the biennial meeting of the General Council of their now united Church unanimously elected Statistician Babson their moderator for the next two years. In so doing they not only approved a growing Congregational-Christian feeling toward more lay control of the Church, but drafted for full service a wiry...