Word: cal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quickly learning that "nobody wanted to be bothered with the problems of others," Orphan Victor Heiser became a plumber's helper, later a carpenter, finally went to college on the salvage of his father's property, finished a four-year medi-cal course in three years. While still an interne, on a vacation in Washington, he took the examination for entrance into the Marine Hospital Service. With no preparation, he was one of three selected from 30 candidates, lost 20 Ib. during the two-week grilling, got by partially on the strength of his knowledge, partially...
...children-Alvin Jr., 15; George Edward Buxton (named for the Sergeant's War-time major), 12; Woodrow Wilson, 10; Andrew Jackson, 5; Betsy Ross, 3. Snorted Alvin C. York when the Board offered to make him the Institute's "honorary president": "I am like the late Cal Coolidge. I do not choose...
...Mass, to Calvin Coohdge in the mayoralty race of 1910, thus helped win Cooliydge his first important political office; in Northampton, Mass. "guide philosopher & friend" to the 30th President, he received the first letter Coolidge wrote from the White House. His classic advice: "Don't say nothin' , Cal...
...BELONGS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!" screamed the Hearst Press, Governor Landon's chief journalistic support to date. Some weeks ago imaginative observers began suggesting that the Kansas Governor's self-chosen appellation of Alf M. Landon might prove as distasteful to fastidious voters in 1936 as J. Cal Coolidge and Herb Hoover would have been in 1924 and 1928 (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week Aspirant Landon arrived at the same conclusion by a different route, let it be known around Topeka that, "perhaps I shall have to learn to adopt my christened name. ... If I stuck...
John G. Hurd '34 of Auburn, Cal., greatly strengthened his chances for a berth on the U. S. Olympic fencing squad by finishing third in the foils tournament at M. I. T. Saturday. Displaying the style that made him 1934 intercollegiate champion, Hurd gave Hugh V. Alessandroni of New York a close run for second place...