Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purge is a nasty word, last week he persuaded his commission to oust three more FCC staff men, bringing his purge score to seven. By abolishing FCC's examining division, incorporating the examiners in the legal division under McNinch's right-hand man. General Counsel William James Dempsey, FCC sidestepped civil service statutes and fired Chief Examiner Davis G. Arnold, Examiner Melvin H. Dalberg. Similar action ousted Publicity Man G. Franklin Wisner. But FCC will not be without a pressagent. Marion Livingston Ramsay was borrowed for 90 days from the Rural Electrification Administration...
...John "R. Cooke '40. Charles H. Coombs Jr. '40, Nicholas J. Cotsonas Jr. '40, Thomas E. Cotter Jr. '40, John B. Crimmins '41, Carlyle Croning '39. Franklin N. Cunningham '41, Sammel R. D'Amice '39, Jacob R. Daua '40, Hamilton Q. Dearborn '39. Leonidas H. Demeter '39. Martin J. Dempsey '41, Joseph P. Driscoll '41, Louis J. Dunham...
...Mexico has no Senate election this year, and the State sends only one Representative (Democrat John J. Dempsey of Santa Fe) to the House. Besides having his secretary and members of his family indicted, Mr. Chavez had other reason for feeling uncomfortable along with his ally, Mr. Dempsey. Last year they got Fred Healy, now indicted, appointed WPAdministrator in place of Lee Rowland, a friend of their political opponent, Governor Clyde Tingley. The warm-blooded Senator warned people not to condemn his friends and relatives before they had their day in court; meantime, his son-in-law took the "advisable...
...which the hero is torn between loyalty to Boys Town and to his old life, represented by a bank-robbing older brother, the picture focuses principally on Father Flanagan. In real life, Father Flanagan has never been ashamed to publicize his enterprise getting celebrities like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and the late Will Rogers to visit Boys Town, sending the school band out to tour the country. Final sequence in the picture, with characteristic fidelity to fact, leaves Father Flanagan planning to enlarge Boys Town's population to 500 and hoping to get the necessary funds by prayer...
Gargantua is a big boy but a Dempsey left hook landing on his stomach might figuratively tear the poor animal in two. . . . He didn't spend years doing bending and mat exercises. A man has 24 ribs. Your encyclopedia will tell you that a gorilla has but 13. Between the ribs, below the breastbone, there are nerve centres. If they are shocked the shock travels to the spine, temporarily causing paralysis. The ribs, and well developed muscles between the ribs, protect these nerve centres. Twenty-four ribs are much more protection than...