Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Association held its annual meeting last week in Murray, Ky. the impounded funds had mounted to $47,000, but Dr. Sherwood still held out. The Georgetown trustees stuck by him; so did the students and faculty. The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, American Legion and Women's Club were for him to the last signature. Just as solidly against him, the Baptist Association as usual voted its annual request that Dr. Sherwood resign or be rebaptized, further declared that Georgetown had in effect "severed" its Baptist connections...
Because the Duchess of Atholl spoke out against the Peace of Munich, the Kinross and West Perth Unionist Association (a Conservative Party political club) refused to renominate her for the House of Commons, where she has served 13 years. Thereupon the Duke, who was president of the club, resigned, declared his wife would stand her next election as an independent, snapped: "And she's bound to be elected...
...called Cafe Society, was given its first hearing in Chicago's skyscraper Opera House. Choreography by Philadelphia's Catherine Littlefield, capers by Chicago's newly imported Littlefield Ballet, helped make it agreeable to ballet fans and tired businessmen alike. A good-natured, showy satire on night-club life, its scene recalled Manhattan's El Morocco; its main characters were thickly disguised as Heavyweight Max Baer, "Chain-store Nymph" Barbara Hutton, Columnist Lucius Beebe...
Died. Rodney Butcher, 37, chief of the Washington bureau of N.E.A. (Newspaper Enterprise Association); of heart disease; in Washington. His syndicated column ("Behind the Scenes in Washington") appeared regularly in 750 newspapers, more than any other syndicated column in the world. At the National Press Club's annual dinner in Washington last week (see p. p), President Roosevelt praised twelve newspapermen as "objective" reporters, singled out Rodney Butcher in particular as a "gentleman of the press...
Originally from Nashville, Dr. Moore writes ten to twelve of the fourteen line poems every day, including Sundays and holidays. He has a private medical practice, has written a number of long and scholarly medical papers, belongs among other associations to the Neurological Supper Club. He is also a semi-professional long distance swimmer...