Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help (or hinder) his renomination. Franklin Roosevelt spoke for ten minutes, praised the Royal Gorge of the Colorado River-and never once mentioned Mr. Adams. But neither did he mention Mr. Adams' opponent, old Justice Benjamin C. Hilliard, who had suddenly gone to Kansas to see a sick brother. So Mr. Adams' punishment for opposing the President's Court plan was not severe...
...Husky, 40-year-old Reginald A. Whitcombe, youngest of Britain's three famed Whitcombe brothers who during the past 15 years have won almost every major golfing prize in the Empire: the British Open golf championship; defeating a predominantly British field; with a 72-hole score of 295, two strokes better than second-place Jim Adams of Scotland and three strokes better than the favorite, Defending Champion Henry Cotton, considered by many the world's No. 1 professional golfer; at Sandwich. To Brother Reggie went the distinction of being the first of the Whitcombes to win the Open...
...Institution's president, bald, vigorous Harold G. Moulton. Actually the concept was as much the creation of its Institute of Economics director, tall, distinguished-looking Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse (rhymes with "course") and the latest book is published over his name and that of Horace B. Drury. Brother of Novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart (Oil for the Lamps of China), Economist Nourse went to Brookings with Dr. Moulton in 1922 after teaching in a number of colleges. His latest work gives a readable history of general prices, lists numerous reasons why price policies have erred, also lists numerous examples...
Boss of all these jobs and thus of the town's livelihood is sleek, youngish Village Clerk Frank Indihar, who also has an insurance business. His brother, Anthony, is deputy village clerk and president of the Board of Education. Last week Minnesotans heard of strange doings in Gilbert...
...sheer good nature he put a girl named Emily Welsh in the family way, and Emily's brother Tip smashed in the side of his head. There was consternation in the poolrooms. No one but Sam could hold the rackets together. At once his generals began quarreling. Just before Sam died in a friend's front parlor Max tried to get the doctor to give him an injection so he could say a few words in the presence of witnesses. Outside on the sidewalk, in the dawn, Art and Perry and Cork stood with shoulders hunched and hands...