Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politicians of the shirt-sleeved South, Governor Sterling has worked long and hard to reach his present eminence. In his home city of Houston he made a reputation as a port developer, a Y. M. C. A. benefactor and the able publisher of the Post-Dispatch. In 1927 Governor Dan Moody named him chairman of the State Highway Commission. He did a good job reorganizing this politically mired department. He built new highways and spread his name & fame up and down every mile of them. It was on the strength of this road work that he was nominated and elected...
...Blue Dan of Happy Valley, Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten's English setter, often a best-dog-in-show...
...city built on nuggets and gold dust. A new social order was being created; life was becoming stable; respectability and stolidity were in the air. But there were still those who lived high, wide & handsome. The old Poodle Dog, Tail's, the Cliff House and Coffee Dan's had no lack of carefree customers...
...month the 1,000-odd inhabitants of the Erie's New York office will all be installed in Cleveland. Wall Street oldsters recalled that the last time the Erie moved was in 1868 -a highly immoral escapade across the Hudson with Messrs. Jay Gould, Jim Fisk and "Uncle Dan'l" Drew, three most disreputable characters. Commodore Vanderbilt's legal maneuvers had made it too hot for Gould's company in New York, so they packed up the Erie books, boarded a ferry, set up the road's offices in Jersey City's Hotel Taylor...
...Endeavorers. Fewer than at many a previous convention, they nevertheless represented an interdenominational organization grown impressively large: 4,000,000 members in 80,000 societies in 105 countries. If any one doubted its continued prestige Christian Endeavor had only to point to its kinetic, strapping president, Rev. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling; its trustee, President Paul Shoup of Southern Pacific Railroad Co.; its active member, President Herbert Hoover who spoke to the convention by radio...