Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without difficulties did the management of the Brady estate by the Brady sons progress. In 1923 the Brady sisters, Mrs Francis Patrick Garvan, wife of onetime Alien Property Custodian Garvan, famed Watchdog of U. S. Chemical industry, Mrs James C. Farrell, and Mrs. Carl Tuck sued the two sons charging mismanagement and converting of funds to their own instead of the estate's use. The suit was finally dismissed...
Other members included Thomas Woodnutt Miller, onetime Alien Property Custodian, convicted for fraud in the American Metals case; Col. Thomas B. Felder, deceased; Charles Forbes, convicted of fraud as Director of the Veterans Bureau. Socially its meeting places were a green house on K Street, near the Department of Justice, and a house on H Street, next to the old Shoreham Hotel which backed on the city home of Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post, a big-hearted Harding friend...
...item in the Senate bill which President Hoover did not recommend: $60,000 more for upkeep of the Senate Office Building. Prime pleader for that sum was New Hampshire's Senator George Higgins Moses who. as chairman of the Rules Committee, is the building's chief custodian. His explanation: "The building was infested with cockroaches until we found the source of it, down below, and closed it up. They became so lively that some of them were holding debates with the office force and making life unpleasant for Senators. I had to hire extra scrubwomen. . . . Remember, every Senator...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., Phil Weidman, custodian of a new $1,500,000 court house, found its corridors too long, rode about the building on an old bicycle...
...been announced that Professor Thomas Barbour '08, Director of the University Museum and of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Custodian of the Harvard Biological Laboratory and the Botanic Garden in Cuba, has been chosen as Harvard's representative to the Pan-American Educational Congress, which has attracted educators from all over the world, and to the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the University of Havana...