Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drank extensively, took all the best rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union of Operating Engineers shared two bedrooms and a parlor at $30. Some of the labormen who brought their wives & children set up housekeeping apartments rented...
...fleet, David Foote Sellers. Rear Admiral Sellers reaches .the navy's statutory retirement age of 64 next February. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson announced the name of his successor who will move in as Superintendent next Feb. i: Rear Admiral Wilson Brown Jr., now commander of the U. S. fleet's training detachment...
Washington bigwigs who visit Annapolis under the new superintendent's regime will be welcomed by an old friend. For Wilson Brown distinguished himself from 1926 to 1929 as naval aide to Calvin Coolidge and commanding officer of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, again from 1934 to 1936 as naval aide to Franklin Roosevelt. His career began in 1902 when he graduated from Annapolis as the youngest member of his class. He went back to teach at the Academy in 1907, commanded the U. S. S. Parker during the World War, later headed the U.. S. submarine base...
...inspect his plant. One of the hosts, Publisher Carl C. Council arranged to have his Durham Herald City Editor Bob Mason interview President Hill after the festivities. City Editor Mason appeared, was given no interview, carried away only an impression of a flashily-dressed man in a rich brown suit, bright red tie and pocket handkerchief, cowboy hat. He returned to his office, wrote that President Hill "looks more like a circus barker than a millionaire." Next day distraught citizens had visions of angry President Hill building no more warehouses in Durham, perhaps even moving American Tobacco operations to friendlier...
...their only games to date, the Crimson has tied Brown 1-1, and the Lord Jeffs have beaten M.I.T. 5-1. The Yardlings have defeated Tabor 3-1, and Exeter has overcome New Hampton 3-0 and drawn with Dartmouth...