Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong rural and prohibitionist following. When they went to look for Lieut. Governor Dickinson, who will be 80 next month, they found him also bedded with influenza, at his farm near Charlotte. So was his wife. He got up long enough to be sworn in as Michigan's 54th Governor, first Lieutenant Governor in the State's history to be promoted by death. His wife had her bed brought downstairs so she could watch the ceremony. Ailing Oldster Dickinson, who saw eye to eye with Frank Fitzgerald in many matters announced that he would "obviously...
Last week as the No. 1 opera house of the U. S., Manhattan's Metropolitan, launched its 54th season, General Manager Edward Johnson and his associates found opera's financial and artistic graphs like those of the stockmarket. After a Depression, they appeared to be starting a slow, but not uniform long term rise. The statistics...
...54th Attorney General of the U. S. last week held his "farewell" press conference. He reviewed his labors, which began with an opinion on the President's power to call a bank holiday, written personally, in penciled long hand, in the Library of Congress while his chief's first inaugural was in progress March 4, 1933. He recalled the hot legal battles of AAA and NRA; the building of the FBI from a sleuthing unit to an armed force with powers of arrest and a sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons...
...Dartmouth and Pittsburgh both had their famed undefeated streaks snapped at 22 this season, a far less publicized string has been spun by Baltimore's Morgan College, No. 1 Negro football team of the U. S. In crushing Hampton Institute, 19-to-6, last week, Morgan registered its 54th consecutive game (seven years) without defeat...
...weeks that lively Betty Vandenberg, who year ago made her debut as a pianist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, contrived to make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list of 300 included, as well as two Supreme Court Justices, half-a-dozen Ambassadors and a quorum of top-ranking Republicans, a good handful of anti-Roosevelt Democrats like Montana's Wheeler, Missouri's Clark and Rhode Island's Gerry. Washington political...