Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which attended the G. 0. P. meeting. National Chairman Raskob, often accused by Republicans of trying to "smear Hoover," got a titter when he said he had looked up "smear" in the dictionary and found it meant "to anoint a dead body with sacred oil before burial." Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army prayed. Mayor Cermak rumbled a speech of welcome which soon descended to a partisan harangue. Then Senator Barkley, tall, paunchy, all in white, launched vigorously into his keynote address (see p. 12). Most delegates, mindful of the fight to come, did not overtax their lungs...
Died. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90, one of the surgeons who attended Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth (TIME, April 4); of old age; in Manhattan...
...Philadelphia, two men appeared at a subway change booth, told Night Cashier Bessie Liddell they had come "from the office" to spray the booth against mosquitoes. One of the men divided the booth with a sheet so that she would not get sprayed. When Bessie Liddell peeped around the sheet, the two men and seven bags containing the day's receipts of $700 were gone...
...Aldrich '34, J. B. Ayer '33, G. M. Bartol '33, R. S. Baxter '34, J. A. Booth '33, A. M. Brown '34, F. P. Campana '33, W. I. Clark, Jr. '33, J. T. Dennison '34, Bernard Feins '33, C. J. Fleming, Jr. '33, A. B. Hallowell '34, G. S. Hayes '34, H. S. Howe '34, B. L. Huntington '34, P. O. Johnson '33, J. J. Mellen, Jr. '33, C. G. Mixter, Jr. '34, C. C. Pell '33, B. S. Rogers '33, Robert Schafer '34, L. L. Thurber '34, R. H. Weed '34, F. C. Welch '33, J. B. White...
Alumni opinion is of course divided, but the defense of the good old days appears less robust than might have been expected. There is a strong current of student protest. Three members of this year's varsity, headed by the renowned "Albie" Booth, have joined with Coach Stevens in deploring the exposure of first-team men to the grave risk of lost games. They assert that Yale teams "have been winning teams for sixty years," and they bespeak tender solicitude for a "splendid record" and a "noble heritage." The Yale Daily News fears "the complete obliteration of Yale's athletic...