Word: plummer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What shocked Britons most was a statement from the accountants-Cooper Brothers & Co.-that they were "unable to report that in our opinion proper books of accounts have been kept by the corporation." But Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, the corporation's chairman and Labor's vice president in charge of groundnuts, also had some excuse for this. In the first year (1947-48), the scheme had been run by a subsidiary of the empire-wide business colossus, Unilever. Plummer claimed that when his corporation took over a year ago, the books were already in chaos. This...
...looked as though Labor would stick stubbornly to the scheme. At his country house in Essex, where he farms and bird-watches, Plummer was still hopeful of getting the scheme straightened out. Said he: "We'd be pretty damn fools if we had to present another financial report like this next year!" Subordinating his distaste for Labor planning to his fervent support of empire development, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had a Churchillian message of cheer to Plummer: "The whole harsh picture is a stimulus to resolution and skill, an appeal to the nation's grit...
Gideon's Knights. When P. (for Plummer) Bernard Young went to work for the Guide in 1907, it was the fraternal organ (circ. 500) of the Knights of Gideon. One day the editor failed to show up and Printing Foreman Young tried his hand at an editorial. He did so well that he was hired as associate editor. In 1910, Young took over the Guide and turned it into a general newspaper for Negroes. Now it has 80 employees, an International News Service wire and good Washington coverage from the National Negro Press Association...
...Board. In Ipswich, England, a circus baboon wandered into Mrs. Dorothy Plummer's house, helped herself to oranges and bananas, strayed upstairs into the bathroom where she dabbed on a bit of powder, stopped off for a bounce on the bed, finally was discovered by police downstairs, drinking a bottle of stout...
HERBERT A. PLUMMER Port Arthur...