Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Edward VIII less than a year ago abdicated the throne of England to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, it was clear that almost anything he did thereafter would be a painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start...
...system is used in 1,000 plants throughout the world, one of its bitterest enemies. Arrival of Efficiency Expert Bedaux caused an immediate blast from the labor press which Efficiency Expert Bedaux began by ignoring. Apparently concerned mostly with the fact that the most gala entertainments arranged for the Windsors were a dinner at the home of the British Ambassador in Washington and a luncheon at the White House while Mrs. Roosevelt was away on a lecture tour, he set off for Washington to persuade the State Department to help put the Windsor tour on a more appropriate footing...
Mary Saltonstall scholarships, established in 1733, for "Juniors and Seniors in Harvard College (always dissenters)," awarded to John Ashmead, Jr. '38, of Windsor, Connecticut; and Clare L. Milton '39 of St Joseph, Michigan...
...Queen Mary docked in Manhattan, reporters clamored around Ernest Aldrich Simpson, divorced husband of the Duchess of Windsor, quizzing him about the Duchess and about whether he intended to remarry. Said Mr. Simpson: "Oh, let's have another drink...
...film's making, Director Herbert Wilcox stressed authenticity above all things. He borrowed Buckingham and St. James's Palaces, Windsor Castle. He persuaded Liverpool Museum to let him use the original, wheezing train which carried the real Victoria & Albert on their real honeymoon. The Royal Mews let him have the genuine Jubilee coach. He hired Dance Historian Lucile Marsh to puff in advance notices that the film's 19th Century dances were not only authentic, but were direct ancestors of the Big Apple. Miss Neagle herself is said to have culled 40% of the dialogue from...