Word: decatur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stooped old lady, who in her daytime tweeds and cotton stockings looks like a tired, worn housewife, Mrs. Truxtun Beale entertains with rigid selectivity at Decatur House, the only house in Washington still lighted by gas and candlelight. Said a society writer: "If you go to Beale's you're made. She has no ax to grind, nothing to sell. She's just so secure...
...kneed boy, working as an office boy in a steel company in his native Coatbridge, Scotland. He came to the U.S. in 1927, dug ditches, wrestled iron castings in a New Jersey foundry. But Marshall really wanted to be a minister, finally studied three years at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga. In 1937 he became pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington. Ten years later he became Senate chaplain of the Republican 80th Congress, was re-elected in the Democratic 81st...
...author of Saturday Evening Post articles and public speeches (his 1942 commencement address at the University of Dayton* was read into the Congressional Record). During World War I he won the middleweight boxing title at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, later played and coached pro football with five clubs (Decatur, Ill., Rock Island, Ill., Milwaukee, Detroit and Providence) before going to Washington University...
...program has been in the works since Minister of Trade & Commerce Clarence Decatur Howe broached it to top U.S. brass in Washington last summer. The first step was to get the approval of the National Military Establishment, which controls the designs of U.S. planes. The second was to make a deal with the U.S. aircraft manufacturers...
...many changes. This week the newlyweds will settle down, after their fashion. They will spend half of each week in the Waldorf Towers in Manhattan, where Bill Hearst publishes his father's Journal-American and the American Weekly, and the other half in a house on swank Decatur Place in Washington, where Bootsie will pursue her career...