Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whereas . . . the wife of the Duke of Windsor . . . while resident here in no way showed the slightest concern nor sympathy for the problems of labor or the poor and needy...
...Washington, where he arrived with a representative of the New York advertising firm of Arthur Kudner, Inc., thus giving the Windsor tour an unfortunate commercial air, Efficiency Expert Bedaux's reception at the State Department was cool. Even cooler was his reception by a group of reporters invited to cocktails at the Mayflower Hotel, which hoped to accommodate Mr. Bedaux's friends when they arrived. Efficiency Expert Bedaux failed to improve matters when, asked whether he was paying for the Windsor tour, he gave a noncommittal answer indicating that...
Manifesto- Last year Baltimore's sage, Henry L. Mencken, stated the opinion of a large portion of the English-speaking world when he called the abdication the "greatest story since the Resurrection." Last week Baltimore's most noteworthy response to the Windsor housing tour came not from Sage Mencken but from an American Federation of Labor leader named Joseph P. McCurdy in the form of a resolution unanimously adopted by a meeting of the Baltimore Federation. Excerpts...
...Sire." By the time U. S. Labor had made plain its opinion of the Windsor tour, the Efficiency Expert began to feel that he was not the ideal person to insure the Duke of Windsor the kind of reception he got when he visited the U. S. as Prince of Wales in 1924. He announced that he had telephoned the Duke of Windsor to offer to resign in favor of a less unpopular guide. The Duke's reply was "Charles, pay no attention to these low accusations. Go right ahead." Trying to obey, Efficiency Expert Bedaux encountered more obstacles...
...Paris last week, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor began to weaken about their U. S. tour after their first telephone conversation with Charles Bedaux. Next day, they decided to go ahead with it anyway. Day before the Bremen - chosen for the voyage because, unlike American and French liners, she does not call at ports in England - was to sail, the Windsors lunched at the British Embassy, went back to the Hotel Meurice to finish packing their 20 trunks and 50 suitcases. Late that afternoon, the Windsor Housing Tour of the U. S. reached its final anticlimax. This...