Word: cloyd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land. To hear them orate in competition for the U. S. championship there assembled one night in Constitution Hall 5,000 people and five judges -U. S. Senator Thomas James Walsh, Director Leo S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union, President William Coleman Nevils of Georgetown University, President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington University, Chancellor Lucius Charles Clark of American University. Timekeepers held whistles poised while the seven delivered set speeches on the U. S. Constitution and four-minute extemporaneous orations. Second place was won by Ever Louise Conner, 16, of Chicago, only girl in the final contest...
Mexicans were gratified last week by the news from Washington that President-Elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio had been presented with a Doctor of Laws degree by George Washington University. After the ceremony conducted by Georgetown-President Cloyd H. Marvin, Señor Ortiz Rubio delivered in voluble if slightly uncertain English a few lofty sentiments; left on the morrow to inspect Niagara Falls...