Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...service was rewarded last week when President Roosevelt appointed Robert Hayes Gore of Florida to be Governor of Puerto Rico. Loudly had Publisher Gore boomed Franklin Roosevelt for the Presidency through his Fort Lauderdale News, his Deland Sun-News, his Daytona Beach Sun-Record. The President picked his first cousin Warren Delano Robbins as Minister to Canada, and Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium and for 25 years a career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Brazil. ¶Down the Potomac to Indian Head and back to Washington cruised President Roosevelt one balmy afternoon and evening last week. Also aboard the Sequoia...
...return to Virginia- when suddenly, last week, in stepped the might and majesty of the Federal Government. Overnight George Crawford became a national headline character potentially as famous as that other obscure Negro, Dred Scott.* Into the Boston court of U. S. District Judge James Arnold Lowell, cousin of Harvard's president, had gone N. A. A. C. P. attorneys seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Lowell, an individualist on & off the bench where he has sat for eleven years, granted the writ. His legal reasoning: Virginia does not permit Negroes to serve on juries; therefore any conviction...
...once. Even more remarkable than the record of the Optimists-who have won the Indoor Championship three times in the last four years-was the way they organized for last week's game. Month ago, Winston Guest was in London, just back from lion-shooting in Africa. His cousin Michael Phipps called him up from Florida, urged him to reorganize their team. Guest flew to board the Bremen, flew from Manhattan to Virginia to inspect his ponies, played one practice game in Manhattan and took train for Chicago. Iglehart got word in Paris, came over on the Berengaria, played...
...dictator is Agnes Duff Fenwick of the Scripps-Howard News, divorced wife of Lumberman Hugh Fenwick. Los Angeles looks to Mrs. Juana Neal Levy of the Times for social guidance. Hearst's Examiner has "Cholly Angelo" (Mrs. Jean Loughborough) and gives prominent bylines to Princess Marie de Bourbon, cousin of Spain's Alfonso. Sh" tells most of her information to Mrs. Loughborough who ghost-writes it for her. In the Examiner the cinema colony has its own society department, run by Reine Davies (real name: Douras), sister of Film Actress Marion Davies. Headline-of-the-Week...
...describes the memory of finding an old woman frozen to death in the snow. '"The Return" tells how a man came back to his home town years later, and how he was glad to run away from it the same night. In "The Fight" two respectable, middle-aged cousins who have never liked each other finally have the fistfight they should have got out of their systems when they were boys. Having given and received a black eye, a bloody nose, they part in silent enmity. "John thought his cousin Alfred never had been very nice. He hoped...