Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Progenitors. On the first evening of the Jamboree one of its three compulsory functions was held.*Some 28,000 boys and Scout Masters crowded around the base of the Washington Monument for the lighting of the Camp Fire. Up stepped wizened little Daniel Carter Beard with trusty flint and steel, struck the spark which lit a torch which ignited two big campfires. Old Dan Beard had every right to that honor. He has worn out more deerskin shirts and done more for boys than any magazine illustrator now alive. At 87 he is still spry and alert, throws hatchets...
...work once more but raised 2,000 ghosts. The great Quemahoning Dam above the city is eleven times as big as the one that let go in 1889 and if terrorists were abroad, where might they not strike next? Johnstown's loud Mayor Daniel J. Shields sent President Roosevelt an I-told-you-so telegram, called before him the district's two chief Labor leaders and warned them to get out of town or stay "at their own risk." The most determined of the two, James Mark of the United Mine Workers, replied by calling 40,000 miners...
...York's O'Day is a tall, blue-eyed Episcopal socialite. Daughter of a wealthy Georgia planter, she studied art eight years in Europe, there met the Irishman she subsequently married, the late Daniel O'Day, an official of Standard Oil of New Jersey. After his death in 1916 Mrs. O'Day took up social work and politics and, with her close friend Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, helped organize New York women for the Democracy. She participates in many of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects, is a co-vice president of her Val-Kill Furniture shop...
...Washington the U. S. Chamber of Commerce's old and new presidents, Harper Sibley and George H. Davis turned out to welcome the Japanese with Ambassador Hirosi Saito. With Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper they exchanged polite greetings. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council gave them a luncheon. Secretary of State Cordell Hull made a speech. At the Burning Tree, Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs they played golf earnestly and remarkably well. Convinced by members of the State Department that Franklin Roosevelt minded not at all their lack of formal morning clothes, they spent a smiling half...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be on Friday. The exercises, which are open to the public, will begin at 11:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. John G. Winant, former Chairman of the Social Security Board and former Governor of New Hampshire, will be the Orator; and Daniel Sargent '13, Instructor and Tutor in History and Literature, will be the Poet. Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law at Harvard and President of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, will preside...