Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station the President handshook his friend Fred Botts, "dean" of the Warm Springs Foundation. "I'll be back for Thanksgiving," he said, "with provisos." He went up the ramp to the platform of his private car. The send-off crowd hushed itself, to hear his words of farewell. Franklin Roosevelt grinned his broadest and said: "I'll be back in the fall-if we don't have...
Johnny Torrio, tough, buttoneyed little dean of the Prohibition criminal era, was on trial in Manhattan last week for the same offense that undid his pupil Al Capone: cheating on his income taxes. Slit-eyed, impassive sat Johnny as 34 of the Government's 75 witnesses told on him. Then one morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent...
...arms. Whether due to the widely discussed influence of the "rabbit" quality in American horsehide, or to the more mundane belief that managers have overworked their pitchers, the fact remains that an inordinate percentage of the country's pitching greats have grievous afflictions in their flippers. Carl Hubbell, Dizzy Dean, Bob Feller, Lefty Grove, Schoolboy Rowe, Van Lingle Mungo, and Wes Ferrel, these are only a few of the burdened. X-rays have been taken, yes, and chipped bones and bent bones and extraneous bones have been removed. But many of these men have little faith in science. Some back...
...Dearborn, N.Y.U. Dean of General Education, will deliver the keynote address on "Democracy in School Administration" in Emerson D this afternoon. Proceedings will be broadcast over WEEI from 3:30 to 4 o'clock and from 4:45 to 5:15 o'clock...
...There is no better way to understand such problems as social security and relief, the government and transportation, and the influence of pressure groups, "Dean Hanford said, "than by talking them over with well-informed persons in an informal manner around a table or in a conference room under condition which permit a fresh presentation of various points of view...