Word: windsors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
King George, Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, in a short holiday at Windsor Castle, found an out-of-season use for the Princesses' private swimming pool (see cut). Papa pumped...
...based on units of production. While organized labor screamed that the system was only the infamous "stretchout" and turned foremen into Simon Legrees, Bedaux made millions. He took out citizenship papers, found a new socialite wife in Michigan, hobnobbed with industrialists, finally became a pal of the Duke of Windsor, later openly admitted: "I am an out & out Fascist...
This admission was made at the time Bedaux's 14th-Century chateau in France was being used for the wedding of the Duke to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. Thereafter Bedaux's fascist tie-up became more evident. It did not involve Windsor except through Bedaux's attempts to convert the former British king, among others, to a new Bedaux system of "economic and social appeasement." This theory thinly disguised Nazi ideology by advocating the intervention of the state in labor controversies and class frictions (i.e., improving the lot of the masses by putting them in their place...
...Confronted with a story of a wedding attended by the Governor of the Bahamas, they admitted the presence of "the Duke of Windsor...
...Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, was once told he was going to be introduced to "one of the Biddies." Asked he: "What's a Biddle?" Last week Rio de Janeiro learned about the most unorthodox of living Biddies: George,* who was born in Philadelphia, went to Groton & Harvard, but turned out to be an artist. The first U.S. artist ever commissioned by a South American country to decorate public buildings, he had done two murals for Brazil's massive National Library...