Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manning Brown, Jr. 50 For Vice-President Richard Glover Ames 110 Taggart Whipple 81 Edward James Rogers 68 Atreus von Schrader, Jr. 41 John Ware, Jr. 23 Arthur Osgood Choate 17 For Secretary-Treasurer Carl Albert Pescosolido 86 Guy Scull Hayes 80 Theodore Chase 65 Chester Harding King 61 Andrew Eliot Ritchie...
...Last week William Andrew Mellon attended his last Hoover Cabinet meeting as Secretary of the Treasury. A profuse exchange of kind words followed. Back at the Treasury Mr. Mellon took the oath as Ambassador to Great Britain, cryptically remarking: "This isn't a marriage ceremony. It's a divorce." At the same time Ogden Livingston Mills was sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury. When Ambassador Mellon was handed his commission, he declared: "This is the first time I've received something." Secretary Mills twitted him on his jokes: "Really, you're getting...
...Confirmed the appointment of Andrew William Mellon to be Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (see above). ¶ Debated direct Federal Unemployment Relief (see col. 3). ¶ Accepted the credentials of and administered the oath of office to Hattie Wyett Caraway of Arkansas, first woman ever elected to the Senate.? ¶ Received from Oklahoma's Thomas a resolution asking that the Foreign Relations Committee report from time to time on Far Eastern developments affecting U. S. life and property, d. Received from Washington's Jones a resolution prohibiting Army and Navy activity in States which...
Lions are occasionally seen on the Nairobi, British East Africa golf course. There is also a cinema theatre, but apart from these diversions life in Nairobi can be excessively dull. The Hon. Averill Furness, 23-year-old daughter of Viscount Furness, shipbuilding tycoon, and Andrew Rattray, her father's so-year-old professional hunter, found it so one evening last month as they finished dinner. Next morning, with a maid and a typist as the only witnesses, they were secretly married. Lord Furness was out in the bush hunting lions. To break the news to her father, Mrs. Rattray dispatched...
...playwright has drawn considerably on what actually happened to Vice President Andrew Johnson for his subsequent material. Lincoln is villainously impeached, tried for treason. In a genuinely exciting last act, he defends himself before the bar of the Senate in a trial conducted by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, whose judicial behavior is a good shade in favor of Lincoln. It takes 19 votes to save the President, and your scalp is in deed a tough one if it fails to tingle when the deciding vote is about to be cast. High praise goes to Playwright Good man, whose piece...