Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With real appreciation for this unprecedented service to your subscribers. . . . S. WILLIAM SIMON...
...week in Cleveland, Detroit and Pontiac, Mich., striking General Motors autoworkers fought police and non-strikers, together with their foes counted upwards of 100 casualties (but no dead). Meantime, in conference rooms at Detroit, the war was fought and at last ended by G. M.'s massive President William S. Knudsen, C. I. O.'s tiny Walter Reuther...
Unlike his fantasy-ridden English namesake, this pseudonymous William Blake is (besides being a lot of other things) an impressionist who covers huge canvases with a sprawling, vigorous brush. His first novel, The World Is Mine, was a full-blooded story of international high finance spiced with intrigue, war and revolution. Last week he followed it up by The Painter and The Lady, an equally full-blooded story of modern France which begins in a café, ends at the guillotine...
...Author. William Blake is a small, garrulous man of 45, who was brought up in St. Louis, Chicago and Manhattan, the son of an army surgeon and descendant of a long line of atheists. A boy prodigy in mathematics and history, he quit school at 15 to become secretary to a retired millionaire who fancied radicals. An anarchist sympathizer, at 18 he made campaign speeches for Woodrow Wilson. He made and lost a War fortune in commodities purchased on borrowed money, turned conscientious objector when the U. S. entered the War. Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed...
...Chicago, goat-whiskered little William Ten Eyck Ensign, who two years ago had persuaded Chicago architects that he had vast financial backing, had inveigled them into drawing up preliminary plans for a $50,000,000 skyscraper, announced that he had invented: 1) a death ray, 2) a new bearing metal called "Oman" that requires no greasing, 3) a wingless, propellerless airplane that uses water for fuel, can fly 1,300 miles an hour. Inventor Ensign said he would complete his first plane next fall, fly around the world in a day. He then plans to make a more leisurely trip...