Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most powerful lobby in Washington. The Legion's chief lobbyist is smart, dapper, arrogant John Thomas Taylor, a Reserve Corps lieutenant-colonel. Before the War he was an undercover man for the late tariff-loving Boies Penrose. His law partner was Thomas W. Miller who, as Alien Property Custodian, spent a year in Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat was putting through the first Bonus bill in 1924. He carries a cane, wears a stubbly blond mustache, has an eye that...
Germans, recalling how he took chemical patents from them as Alien Property Custodian during the War, and later exploited them as head of the Chemical Foundation, are not prone to think of Irish-blooded Francis Patrick Garvan, brother-in-law of the late Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady, as a particularly apt exponent of the spirit of Fair Play. But affable "Pat" Garvan is a sportsman as well as a patriot. Last week he made two moves toward an end which he thinks important: transfusing the spirit of Fair Play from U. S. sport to U. S. business...
...eight original Houston children, survivors are Andrew Jackson Houston, custodian of San Jacinto battlefield, and Mrs. Nettie Houston Bringhurst of San Antonio. Living descendants: 20 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, 35 great-great-grandchildren. Living grandchildren are: Mrs. Margaret Bell Probert, New York novelist; Mrs. G. H. Loe, Toledo, Ohio; Temple Houston Jr., Enid, Okla.; Sam Houston Ill, Claremore, Okla.; Richard Houston, Woodward, Okla.; Mrs. W. C Henderson, Tulsa, Okla.; Adriane Houston and Margaret Houston, La Porte, Tex.; Mrs. R. E. McDonald, Stamford, Tex.; Mrs. Josephine Paulus, Pearsall Tex.; Mrs. J. B. Heitchew, Abilene, Tex.; Harry Houston and Temple H. Morrow...
Writing to the Bank for International Settlements (custodian of the Young Plan at Basle, Switzerland) the German Government politely hailed President Hoover's "farsighted initiative" in arranging his One-Year Moratorium, but continued with asperity: "The hope that this . . . would mean a definite turn in the world crisis did not materialize. . . . The Hoover year alone was unable to dispel the danger of a collapse...
While all the bells of Budapest tolled, the right hand of St. Stephen was carried through the streets last week in the great process of St. Stephen's Day. Count Julius Karolyi in a gorgeous fur-trimmed noble's costume, followed it again, not as Custodian of the Crown but as Prime Minister...