Word: creel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the National Archives in Washington, D. C. dispatched big trucks to the Munitions Building at 20th Street and Constitution Avenue to clear its basement of an all-but-forgotten stock of yellowing records. They were the files of the Committee on Public Information, better known as the Creel Committee of the World War, one of the most successful propaganda ministries of all time. Mysteriously, three-fourths of the files had disappeared...
...Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom a site for the fair which could later serve the city as an airport. Crafty Democrat George Creel got WPA to pay for the pumping...
...youngish Methodist minister, pulled on hip boots and, along with many another citizen on the opening day of trout season, went fishing. It was Sunday, but Methodist Larrowe had informed his congregation of his plans, and engaged a supply pastor to preach to them. Presently, eight fish in his creel, Angler Larrowe attended services at another church, and said: "I feel that I have spent a Christian Sunday...
They are James P. Kranz Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee, chairman; Charles B. Arendall Jr., Mobile, Alabama; Benjamin C. Chester, Central Falls, Rhode Island; John Corcoran, Pittsburgh; Robert C. Creel, Cambridge; John H. Ferguson, Oklahoma City; Paul Fitting, Nutley, New Jersey; Samuel Gordon, Brooklyn, New York; William P. Gray, Glendale, California; Willard P. Henkelman, Seranton, Pennsylvania; Samuel L. Jashnoff, Far Rockaway, Long Island; Hugh R. Jones, New Hartford, New York; Thomas W. Keesee Jr. Helena, Arkansas; William W. Kirkpatrick, Chappaqua, New York, William H. Pock Jr., Glen Ridge, New Jersey, John O. Rhome, West Allenhurst, New Jersey; and Harold A. Unterberg...
...BIRTH OF CHINA-Herrlee Glessner Creel-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.75). History of Chinese civilization from 1,400 to 600 B.C., endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution's Carl Whiting Bishop as "the best, the most comprehensive, and the most pleasantly readable account yet published...