Word: welching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MacLeish '38, E. G. Dahl '38, S. M. Dall '38, M. E. Lasker '38, J. Ashmead '38, S. S. Stanton '38, L. H. Levy '37, E. H. Riddle '37, E. W. James '38, T. Richards '38, R. S. Russell '38, J. L. Senior '38, M. L. Hayward '38, W. Welch '38, J. H. Steinway '38, F. B. Stevens '35, R. C. Jones '38, J. R. Coolidge '38, O. Paul '38, L. Hammer '38, R. L. Gregg...
Emergency v. Emergency. At Welch, W. Va., a sawmill operator named Killem worked his employes more than 40 hr. a week, paid some of 'them less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with...
...seven companies, director of 24 others dealing in iron, steel, coal, shipping, newspapers. As her chief occupation she regards the editorship of Time & Tide, which she founded as a feminist weekly and which still employs only women in the office. Only child of the late David Alfred Thomas, Welch "coal king," she inherited his vast business interests, his title, his amazing vitality. As Lady Mackworth (she is divorced from Sir Humphrey Mackworth) she went to jail and hunger-struck in the Pankhurst campaign for women's suffrage. She was aboard the Lusitania when it was torpedoed. She has fought...
...throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros. and Charles S. Shaughnessy of R. H. Macy. From Sterling & Welch in Cleveland went short, heavy-set George Killius, known as one of the keenest buyers in the trade. In the largest collection of new furniture under one roof in the world they, and some 6,000 other buyers, joked and jostled over Mickey Mouse chairs, Biedermeier boudoirs, imitation Louis beds...
...pram by the late great Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, but this laying-on of hands produced no precocious poetics. The eighth of a large family (ten) of mixed German, Irish and English blood, Robert von Ranke Graves was born in London (1895), educated at Charterhouse and in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Like many of his English generation he was a battle-scarred veteran when he went up to Oxford (St. John's College) as an undergraduate. Already established as one of the outstanding poets of the War, he turned his pen to many a subject to keep...