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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignored, forgotten in the Democratic excitement, was the Mayflower's star boarder-Vice President Charles Curtis. When he moved into his eleven-room $150-per-day suite (which costs him $5.53 per day) he was the hotel's prize social attraction. Once his vice-presidential progress through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lamest Duck | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Of all the 158 "lame ducks" in the "lame duck" session of Congress opening this week, Vice President Curtis is by far the lamest. Congressional districts turned down 144 Representatives and 14 States rejected sitting Senators but the Vice President was crippled by the vote of the entire country. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lamest Duck | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

The defeat of her half-brother also numbered the happy days of big, buxom, buoyant Dolly Curtis Gann as Second Lady of the Land. From a modest vine-clad house in Cleveland Park she had risen to queen it over Washington society. The nation's snickers at her battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lamest Duck | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

George A. Hill of Seaford, Delaware, Robert Day of District of Columbia, James E. King of Leesburg, Florida, David H. Gordon, Jr. of Atlanta, Georgia, Audley H. Shoemaker of Augusta, Georgia, Thomas G. Cutis of Minneapoles, Minnesota, August G. Curtis of Minneapolis, Minnesota, August C. Helmholzh, 2nd. of Rochester, Minnesota...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARD 180 AIDS, SCHOLARSHIPS TO MEMBERS OF 1936 | 12/1/1932 | See Source »

The same news that came to Princeton last year came last week to Harvard. Its president resigned. Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell has been on the job since 1909. He will be 76 on Dec. 13. Aware that the Fellows of Harvard College had quietly done the same a fortnight ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lowell Out | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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