Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galsworthy. Arnold Bennett; distributed propaganda material broadcast to U. S. libraries, educational institutions and periodicals; "was particularly careful to arrange for lectures, letters and articles by pro-Ally Americans rather than by Englishmen." German-atrocity stories spread like tares. A group of U. S. war correspondents (Harry Hansen. Irvin Cobb, John T. McCutcheon et al.) who had been caught by the German advance in Belgium and went on with the German armies sent a combined cable to the Associated Press. ("In spirit fairness we unite in declaring German atrocities groundless . . . unable report single instance unprovoked reprisal . . . investigated rumors proved groundless...
...about the House's activities. The Senate always dawdles, but the House, under the rule of strong Speakers, has a tradition of dispatch. As the tanned man looked up into the rough-hewn face of the successor of Henry Clay of Kentucky, James K. Polk of Tennessee, Howell Cobb of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, James G. Elaine of Maine, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, Champ Clark of Missouri and Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, he must have been tempted to point out that it was time for the House to live...
What, Mr. Walgreen wondered, did they teach in government courses? That night he slept little and next morning he delivered an ultimatum: Lucille must leave the University. Short while later, when he dropped his niece at the campus, she had instructions to go at once to Cobb Hall, tell the Dean all about...
HARVARD '38 TUFTS '38 Larcom, g. g., O'Connor Scott, p. p., Zimman Magurn, cp. cp., Harris McKellar, 1d. 1d., Connors Cobb, 2d. 2d., Burrage Campion, c. c. Rossman J. Hunsaker, 2a. 2a., Coolidge P. Hunsaker, 1a. 1a., Greenslade Cleveland, ih. ih., Vounakes Sutro, oh. oh., Schapiro...
...years ago "Alf" Landon was a young independent oil man of considerable means. Five years ago, a widower, he married Miss Theo Cobb who has one of the largest collections of Westward Ho glass in the U. S. Since then he has become the father of two children and has twice been elected Governor of Kansas. Politicians would not be surprised to see him turn up at next year's Republican convention wheeling 100 or more Landon-pledged delegates in his perambulator...