Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monday morning, however, all were reunited in the court of Justice Daniel O'Donoghue of the District of Columbia Supreme Court: Mr. MacCracken, Sergeant Jurney, Lawyer Hogan and Lawyer Garnett. The Justice heard the tale, then ruled that: 1) Mr. MacCracken had been not arrested but had been trespassing in Sergeant Jurney's home; 2) The habeas corpus writ should be dismissed; 3) Mr. MacCracken had secured the writ under false pretenses and therefore was guilty of contempt of court and should be fined $100. Further indication that Lawyer Hogan had outsmarted not the Senate...
Leaders of the different clubs were also chosen. They are: Vocal Club, Daniel T. V. Huntoon, 2nd '35; Mandolin Club, William P. Jones '36; Banjo Club, Harold M. Parsons, Jr. '36; Gold Coast Orchestra, Donald A. Crafts '35; Speciality Club, Nathaniel R. French '35, Joseph F. Robbins '36 was chosen as the new publicity director. The positions of Manager and Assistant Manager have already been given to John S. Howe '36 and Russell G. Scott...
Music was George Cohan's specialty before he took up acting and playwriting. When he was 8, his parents went touring in a melodrama called Daniel Boone on the Trail. "Georgie" was taken along to sell songs in intermission, play second fiddle in the orchestra. "Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home?" was his first song published. He was then 15. Not long after, when he was looking for a job in New York he met a man with a street telescope who gave him a free peek at the stars, told him Venus ruled the show business. Cohan went...
...throughout the land many voices chimed in unison with Virginia's Senator Carter Glass, who remarked: "Humanitarians can find some excuse for a man who steals when he has to, but what excuse is there for stealing when there is no need for it." Delaware's Senator Daniel O. Hastings merely snapped: "Robbery...
...induced his company to agree not to bid on the proposed Savannah-Atlanta-Memphis-Tulsa route, since the Postoffice wanted to "take care of" Robertson Air Lines, which had been crudely frozen out of a St. Louis-New Orleans contract by one of the American Airways extensions. ¶Daniel Miller Sheaffer, executive of Pennsylvania Railroad and T. A. T., had an uncomfortable time with the committee. He admitted that Postmaster Brown had promised a transcontinental mail contract if T. A. T. would merge with Western Air Express. Result: the merged company, Transcontinental & Western Air, now flies the mail. After...