Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Father Franklin passed a far harder examination and won the undoubted right to call himself the ablest master of U. S. politics in a century. He got the highest mark awarded in the Electoral College in 116 years, a popular acclaim utterly dwarfing even the mob idolatry enjoyed by Andrew Jackson, whose fox-&-hound watch chain Franklin Roosevelt now wears...
...edge of the little Alabama sawmill town of Hodgetown. Jim and Andrew Tallon grew up in a situation that was set like a time-bomb for some future explosion. Andrew was a powerful, slow-minded, poetic young man who had been laughed at throughout his boyhood because of his harelip and crippled speech. Jim was a wiry, passionate young mill-hand who had defended Andrew all his life. When innocent, Georgia-born Myrtle Bickerstaff came to town and was paired with Andrew at a church social, won his pathetic devotion and fell in love with his brother, she provided...
Suggesting little of its author's cosmopolitan experience and business success, The Tallons reaches its climax when Myrtle learns that she can capture Jim Tallon's attention by making fun of his brother's love for her. To buy relief from her mockery of Andrew, Jim is attentive to her, grows more entangled, eventually marries her. But as he watches her with his brother he begins to believe that they have both tricked him, becomes insanely jealous of a woman he does not love, plunges into wild dissipation, beats his wife until his confusions are ended when...
Fourteen were appointed as the new assistants. They are: Andrew A. Kasper '33, of Watertown, in Chemistry; John O. Brew, of Maiden in Anthropology; Joseph Charles of Arcadia, California, in History; Robert B. Watson, of Urbana, Illinois, in Physics; Lea M. Hurvich, '32, of Mattapan in Psychology...
...dead of malaria and yellow fever. To give the railroad something to haul he started to plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others, on banana money. In 1899 he merged his railroads and plantations with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Co. to form United Fruit, then went north to develop International Railways in Guatemala. United Fruit invested $10,000,000 in the railroad...