Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon yesterday the new Freshman shell, constructed by Sims and Sons, of Putney, England arrived at Weld Boathouse. The new craft, given by L. E. Herrick '97, was ordered by Freshman Coach Bert Haines during his trip to England last summer. He remained there for several months supervising its construction. Encased in its protecting black cover, the English-made boat is now resting on the racks of the boathouse in anticipation of the coming practice...
...Unemployment insurance. He would not see them. Some of them straggled up into the House gallery. From that vantage point one Fred Kearns of Pittsburgh arose, began to shout: "I protest! I protest against the arrest of -." Over his wide-open mouth was clapped the hand of Chief Doorkeeper Bert Kennedy. Angry cries from the House floor: "Throw him out! Shut him up!" Two policemen ejected him while other Reds were shooed off the Capitol grounds...
...been announced that next Monday, February 9, the University and Freshman crew candidates will report to their respective coaches, and the following day the regular spring practice will begin in Newell and Weld boathouses. During the past two months, E. J. Brown '96, Bert Haines, and Whiteside have been in Newell boathouse every day for the purpose of instructing inexperienced oarsmen. The men will not be divided into classes until they get on the water...
Died. Dr. Luis Philander Berne, 48, Manhattan plastic surgeon; of heart disease, while operating on the nose of Mrs. Muriel Sisnan Dodge, second wife of Motorboatman Horace E. Dodge; in Manhattan. Other famed patients of Dr. Berne have-been Actress Fannie Brice, Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, Actor Bert Lytell, Singer Georgie Price and (rumored) Queen Marie of Rumania. The operation on the nose of Mrs. Dodge was successfully completed by a Dr. Joseph Safian, face-lifter to Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan...
...months later Secretary Wilbur pinned the D. F. C. upon the breasts of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and Radioman Noville for the flight to France - a private venture backed by the late Rodman Wanamaker. "At the same table ... sat Bernt Balchen, Lieutenant in the Norwegian Naval Reserve . . . and Bert Acosta [who] had flown Byrd and Noville across the Atlantic ... to them, publicly, Secretary Wilbur expressed regret that because they were 'civilians' the law barred them from...