Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt it so strongly I just burst!" she says. "I got busy." Soon, after running up quite a telephone bill, she had a committee organized-Red-fearing Laborites William Green and Matthew Woll, Redbaiting Dean William Russell of Columbia University Teachers College, TVA's Foe Wendell Willkie. Soon contributions trickled in (from $1 to $1,000) for a radio venture called U. S. Drama, Inc., to foster 15 (time free) programs dedicated to preserving "the true spirit of Americanism . . . the blessing of free initiative...
Last week U. S. Drama, Inc. put on Irish night over MBS, featuring William J. Bailey, the Singing Fireman, rendering Rose of Tralee, and famed ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, the unhappy Democratic warrior, who pitched right into Communism...
...effect a compromise that would keep R. M. F. out of ruinous reorganization, she stepped out. Old Vice President John R. Lawson, onetime president of Colorado's Federation of Labor, resigned and took three months' pay. Into Rocky Mountain Fuel's offices in Denver moved William Taylor, president of Cleveland's Coal Mine Management Co. His aim: to reorganize R. M. F.. put it back on a paying basis. Colorado mine union leaders talked to Reorganizer Taylor, said they were satisfied no change in labor policies was intended...
Convicted last week in Manhattan Federal Court for their part in this fruitless flurry were suave William P. Buckner Jr., 32 (bibulous distant relative of sermonizing New York Life Insurance Co. Chairman Thomas A. Buckner), and his associate William J. Gillespie, 37. Unlike most U. S. Government prosecutions, handsome Bondster Buckner's trial produced a flashy array of Government witnesses: Cinemactors Frank Morgan and Herbert Brough Marshall, Everett Crosby, brother and manager of Crooner Bing (none of whom yielded to Buckner's urgings to get rich quick in the Philippine bonds), Doris ("Peewee") Donaldson and two other Broadway...
...long ago Pius XI's thoughtful successor appealed to George William Cardinal Mundelein, asked him to find good Catholic, bad Fascist Nobile a U. S. job. Few weeks later Cardinal Mundelein found one barely twelve miles southwest of his own Chicago Archdiocese. The job: head of the aeronautical engineering department of Lewis Holy Name School of Aeronautics near Lockport, Ill. Last week, lonely, greying, but still vigorous at 54, Umberto Nobile boarded the Conte di Savoia...