Word: worthington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week this prodigal orator, statesman, financier landed in Manhattan. With him landed also Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, onetime (1924-1928) Secretary of State for War, Sir Harry Duncan McGowan and many another. But no affair of state took Lord Birkenhead to the U. S. Not as statesman but as tycoon came he. For last year, perhaps foreseeing the exit of the conservative ministry and the advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties...
...Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer home Mrs. Hert was "hopeful" that the National Committee would pick Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania as her successor as No. 2 driver of the steamroller. Marion Marjorie Scranton, tall, stylish daughter-in-law of the family that founded and named Scranton, was once (in a nominating speech) called "God's greatest gift to mankind." She is attractive; she is dashing?too much so, according to conservative Pennsylvania politicians who gossiped critically about cigaret smoking and such like. But above all she is a "good politician," now stepping with cheerful speed from local to national fame...
...completely undermines the already precarious position in which the alleged historical documents have been placed by prominent Western authorities among whom are Paul W. Angle, and Logan Hay of the Lincoln Centennial Association, Oliver R. Barrett of Chicago, Louis A. Warren, director of the Illinois Lincoln Foundation and N. Worthington C. Ford Hon. '07, secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Harvard lecturer on historical documents...
Engaged. Mary Whittle Moody, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Ravell Moody of East Northfield, Mass., granddaughter of Evangelist Dwight L. Moody; to Arthur Worthington Packard, son of Mrs. Charles H. Packard of Dorchester, Mass., onetime Rhodes Scholar, Field Secretary of the World Peace Foundation...
...Juan Hill and staying up late, he worked and reworked, in longhand, his speech accepting the nomination. He conferred constantly with visiting politicos and friends -Senator Johnson of California and his manager, Charles L. Neumiller; Attorney-General Ottinger of New York, who aspires to succeed Governor Smith; Mrs. Worthington Scranton, dashing National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania; Louis B. Mayer, politically ambitious cine-man; Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation; Howard Heinz, Pittsburgh pickle man; and many another. ¶ The night of the Tunney-Heeney fight, the newest of six new radio sets (sent on approval) was in operation...