Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Roger Stanley Firestone, son of Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone; and Mary Seagrave Davis, daughter of U. S. Circuit Court Judge J. Warren Davis; in Lawrenceville...
Only a very few highly literate and exceptionally inquisitive South Carolinians know who Joseph Warren ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert is. Those who do recognize this unkempt, unshaven oldster from Ninety Six as the Republican leader of the most overwhelmingly Democratic State in the Union, regard him with political scorn and social contempt. To most decent whites he is guilty of South Carolina's supreme sin: trafficking with Negroes for political purposes. Nevertheless, in one day last week "Tieless Joe" Tolbert and his black-&-whites turned a trick the like of which it takes the State's Democrats more than...
Novelist Johnson deliberated, finally accepted, declared: "When Warren Harding was nominated I saw the light and left the party because I believed Harding's nomination was a sign that liberalism within the party was dead. I am wholeheartedly back of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Since the British Civil Service is by definition impeccable and incorruptible, and since the permanent secretary of a ministry-such as Sir Warren Fisher at the Treasury or Sir Robert Vansittart at the Foreign Office-is always rated as of finer moral fibre, higher intelligence and greater ability than the political transients who serve as His Majesty's Ministers, the dismissal of Sir Christopher Bullock last week implied, at the least, some sort of scandalous corruption somewhere. Nevertheless, because no permanent official of the Civil Service can well be charged with corruption without tarnishing its spotless record, Prime Minister...
...Tide Water Oil Co., President Jacob France of Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Co., President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Corp., President William G. Skelly of Skelly Oil Co. Also indicted were Keith Fanshier, petroleum editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, and Warren C. Platt, publisher of Platt's Oilgram and National Petroleum News.* To oilmen the sole surprise was that the Government had decided to use for the first time in a big case its power to conduct a criminal rather than civil prosecution under the Sherman Act. Late last spring Attorney...