Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From along the iron fence on Pennsylvania Avenue the shrill voices penetrated to the White House. At first President Hoover refused to believe that the husband of Mary, his only sister, was in such unseemly trouble. Confirmation reduced the President to embarrassed silence. He dreaded the jokes, the wisecracks, the...
At a dinner in Hollywood's Biltmore Hotel, attended by Tsar Will H. Hays, Vice President Curtis, Mrs. Dolly Gann and 2,000 others, there were read last week the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences:
Vice President Curtis: "A few weeks ago I stood on the steps of the Capitol and cheered for Polly Moran. . . ."
The American Petroleum Institute? mouthpiece and clearing house of the oil business, composed of 4,300 individuals from all the companies of importance? met last week in Chicago resolved to take Oil more firmly in hand. Secretary of Commerce Lamont was there to tell Oil that it must regard the...
But Mr. Curtis' name did not come up last week. The Institute shelved the tsar idea for the time being. Instead it accepted the resignation of Edwin B. Reeser as president and elected Amos Leonidas Beaty to succeed him. More significant, it was decided to give the Institute's president...