Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sudan, apart from its strategical importance to Anglo-Indian communications, is abundantly watered by the tributaries of the River Nile. Its great plains are, by a combination of this fact and their geographical position, eminently suited to the raising of cotton. This caused that veteran Socialist-publicist, Sidney Webb, and his wife to become parties to the Government's Imperialist designs...
...Webb, President of the Board of Trade and Member of the British Cabinet, recently affirmed the Government's intention not to quit the Sudan. To a Manchester audience, he spoke of the great possibilities of the economic development of that region and fired the imagination of his audience by referring to "COTTON: SUDANESE WHITE GOLD." He said that the Government was making great efforts to increase the cotton production of the Commonwealth, not only in the Sudan but in other British-African possessions and in India. He said that a Nation could prosper by the "smell of the market...
...Sidney Webb, a picturesque little man with a big beard, once a civil servant, was, with Bernard Shaw and Graham Wallace, one of the leading lights in the Fabian Society−organization of Socialism which has done much to develop the Socialist idea in Britain along eminently sound economic lines, and is responsible in no little part for the moderation displayed by British Socialists today. The members of this Society founded the celebrated London School of Economics, which is now one of the most important centres of economic teaching in the world...
Engaged. Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, nee Frederica Vanderbilt Webb, who divorced her husband, publisher of The New York World, in Paris last April for "constructive desertion," to Cyril Jones, 34, onetime tutor to her sons and Secretary to Col. Edward M. House during the Versailles Peace Conference...
...architectural projects as well as the architectural manifestations of the exposition itself. The art of the Theatre is more historical than contemporary in import, as Gordon Craig, Lovat Eraser and others of the modern theorists are absent. There are contemporary drawings of David Garrick, and stage designs by John Webb and Inigo Jones, 1650, a Shakespeare first folio, the program of an amateur performance of the Merry Wives in which Dickens and Cruikshank took part, and delightful models of the old theatres which help to swell the interest in this section. The pictures merely serve for a comparison of English...