Word: 32nd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delano is Chile's present Minister to Washington, Don Emilio Edwards. Not long ago the President gave him a book about the Chilean adventures of a Delano to be presented to Santiago's University. At Seville in 1929 Fourth Cousin Jorge, who is closer kin to the 32nd President of the U. S. than the 32nd President was to the 26th President, won the Ibero-American Cinema Grand Prix with his silent Chilean film, The Street of Dreams...
...which Harvard promptly accepted. The race was billed as "the marine contest of the ages." The man who the following spring was to become the 14th President of the U. S. was in the crowd of 4,000 that saw Harvard win. Last week 80,000 people, including the 32nd President of the U. S., turned out at New London to watch the 72nd rowing of this oldest intercollegiate event in the land...
...receive diplomas which round out the first great period of their lives. Columbia had already sent 1,000 away from Morningside, their ears ringing with the counsels of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and of their own pontifical President Nicholas Murray Butler, presiding over his 32nd commencement. At Cambridge next week President Conant was to preside for the first time over a commencement of his own, with frosty President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell back to talk to some 650 seniors about "War and the League of Nations." Yalemen were wondering how many more commencements would be graced...
...highest squash tennis court in the world, on the 32nd floor of Manhattan's Shelton Hotel, Frank Ward, Manhattan's City Athletic Club professional, playing Thomas lannicelli, last week won the world's open squash tennis championship, for the eighth year...
...Among the directors were Nicholas Low, Comfort Sands and a doughty old sugar refiner named Isaac Roosevelt who later became the bank's president and whose first cousin four times removed was to become 25th President of the U. S. and whose great-great-grandson was to become 32nd President of the U. S. The directors picked for their first president, General Alexander Macdougall, a brisk, decisive Scotch merchant who earlier in his life had piled up a small fortune privateering. Without waiting to obtain a charter (which was not granted until seven years later), the bank soon opened...