Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boost was William Gibbs McAdoo whose Madison Square Garden fight for the Presidency Mr. Roper managed. The Roper appointment infuriates the Al Smith faction of the party, for in 1928 the new Secretary of Commerce became a Hoovercrat by default when he sailed for Europe. Loose-jowled, bespectacled old "Dan" Roper is nominally from South Carolina, where he was born and where he still has two cotton plantations. But for the last 13 years he has lived in Washington as a lawyer, showing clients how to reduce their income taxes. Three years (1917-20) as Commissioner of Internal Revenue qualified...
...from his owner's hairbrush as he bounced along. Close on his heels, in ridiculous contrast, stalked huge, brindled Great Dane Gunar von Hollergarten, best working dog. Then came liver & white Norman of Hamsey, an English Springer Spaniel who had barely beaten out famed old English Setter Blue Dan of Happy Valley for best gun dog. The ribs and muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon on his topknot made French Poodle Whippendell Poli of Carillon, best non-sporting dog, look like...
...patriotic. Generally attached to some potent Japanese politician, a modern group of ronin seldom commit violence themselves, spend their time plotting and instigating patriotic youngsters, such as the assassins of ex-Finance Minister Inouye (TIME, Feb. 22) and the Empire's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, March 14). Most famed, almost deified in Japan, are the Forty-Seven Ronin, heroes of feudal thuggery who avenged the death of their daimyo (overlord) by slaying his enemy, then committed hara-kiri themselves, and are now buried around a Tokyo temple where pious Japanese keep incense ever burning before...
...away at each other all week through an amplifying system which made every murmur an angry shout, the labor executives' committee and the railway executives adjourned from the smoky ballroom to Room No. 13. Conspicuously not present at the knee-to-knee parley was fatherly President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...
...games, bettering her own best previous scores, and a perfect game (300), the 8th in her career; in the course of a single evening's exercise, at St. Paul, Minn. ¶ William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, itinerant Georgia heavyweight pugilist: a 12-round bout against Dan McCorkindale of South Africa; by decision; before the biggest African prizefight crowd (15,000); at Johannesburg...