Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball that was used for the kickoff, inscribed by President Hoover. At a convivial party on the St. Regis roof that night, to which Producers Florenz Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll sent beauteous shows girls for each & every player on the two teams, the ball was presented to Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who had followed up Sport Editor Paul Gallico's lead in arranging the game...
...Banks & Co., important Southern banking group, is headed by Aloysius Burton Banks, 62, Arkansas booster reputed to be worth $5,000,000. He is also a big factor in the insurance field. He lives in Little Rock in modest luxury, takes long walks at dusk, alone. Last week genial Mr. Banks took few walks, showed the strain of long conferences. He hoped that eventually his chain could be rewelded...
...hard-headed nautical Goat. The contest was first seriously proposed by long-legged Sports Editor Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News (TIME, Nov. 17). And the man who finally turned the trick was New York's official greeter and one-time police commissioner, Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen who, having joined the Salvation Army's relief committee, tried to get Secretaries Hurley and Adams to bring about the game. When they failed, persuasive Mr. Whalen journeyed to Annapolis and West Point, somehow managed to get the superintendent of each institution to drop his grievance...
...make more jobs the "big four" railway brotherhoods suggested that the roads shift employment from an eight to a six-hour basis but without any wage reductions. Declared Lawrence Aloysius Downs, president of Illinois Central: "This is a mighty poor time to ask any such thing. The roads have no money to pay additional salaries...
Julius Fleischmann; Edgar Allan Poe; Lawrence Mervil Tibbett ;Lammot du Pont ;Peter Bernard Kyne; James Jeremiah Wadsworth ;Alexander J. Cassatt; Malcom W. Greenough; Paul Hyde Bonner ;James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney ;William E. Boeing ;John N. Garfield ;Philip Richard Mather; Edward Aloysius Cudahy; Lester Armour; William H. Mitchell; Sturtevant Erdmann; Pierrepont D. Schreiber...