Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of nature, we young upstarts became an Old Gang. ... Of the seven Fabian essayists of the '80s the only survivors are [Sidney] Webb and myself, both octogenarians. ... Be patient with us: we shall not be long...
...Woodman, now attached to Roston Civilian Schools Area, came to the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to assume the duties of Adjutant of the Stat School. He was soon forward by major John F. Hetlin, who took over the duties as Commanding Officer. First Sergeant Roy L. Webb was also one of the first members of the School...
...Club blowout a week from next Monday. He's on a month's leave, Preparatory to re-entering as a Midship- man with the new class on June J. That's a tough reason for a vacation, as were the deals Fate handed out to Ken Seitz and George Webb...
Died. Beatrice Potter Webb, 85, researcher, author, collaborator and wife of Socialist Sidney Webb (first Baron Passfield) ; in Liphook, Hants, England. Eighth of the nine daughters of Great Western Railway's onetime chairman, she began work as a reformer at 22, married the Fabian Society's Sidney Webb in 1892. When a Labor Government made him Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies, elevated him to the peerage in 1929, she refused to assume his title. Famed for their 1909 "Minority Report" on British poor laws and for their subsequent crusade (backed by Winston Churchill) to prevent public...
...charge of the latter demonstration were the new and retiring Officers of the Day, endots Thomas C. Palmer and Charles L. Tillery, and guard-commanders Andrew Fisher and Allen T. Webb Also in executive capacity was S. L. Kapaid, Sergeant of the Guard...