Word: conn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Westport, Conn...
When Montana's grim-jawed old Senator Tom Walsh, newly wed, died just before the New Deal was inaugurated, Homer Cummings of Stamford, Conn, was slated to be Governor General of the Philippines. He went into the Cabinet, vice Walsh, on 48 hours' notice. It was understood he would serve only a two-year hitch, but his willingness to find legal paths to Franklin Roosevelt's goals made the latter persuade him to stay on. However, the path he proposed to enable the New Deal to make over the Supreme Court won him no kudos when...
...Albert W. Johnston, owner of the Greenwich (Conn.) News-Graphic, who makes money from gold mines and doesn't like to lose it on newspapers, looked around for someone to put his paper on its feet. Johnston met Wythe Williams, and the Greenwich News-Graphic not only got a new editor but a new punning name, Greenwich Time. Wythe Williams set out to make his Connecticut suburban paper the Emporia Gazette of the East...
...HAVEN, Conn. Nov. 21--Joseph William Stack Jr. of East Lansing, Michigan, was elected captain of next year's Yale football team. Stack, 22-year-old Varsity center during the past campaign, was the captain of the Yale Freshman eleven two years ago. Stack follows in the footsteps of Bill Platt of Rye, New York, who led the team this fall...
...condition of Theodore P. Robie and David Dove, both members of the class of '38 and first year medical students, who were the only students reported injured during the weekend, was described by Milford (Conn.) Hospital authorities as "not serious" last night. The men, hurt in an automobile accident, are "fairly comfortable," and "will be discharged...