Word: denison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seating is unchanged as the two Crimson outfits rest in their fraternity house residences tonight. The work is all over for the week, except for the races tomorrow night. The athletes arrived here about 8.30 this morning after a 16 hours' train ride. They went to breakfast while Edgar Denison rigged the boats and returned to the boathouse about 11 o'clock for the workout, which consisted of limbering up and racing starts. Another row was held late this afternoon, the shells being left in the shelter at the start of the course, there to stay until they are sent...
Onetime (1915-31) Republican Congressman Edward Everett Denison of Illinois was last week put on trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court for liquor possession. In December 1928 heavy-jowled Mr. Denison returned to New York from a junket to Panama. Under his freedom-of-the-port privilege he brought in much luggage without inspection. Several weeks later Prohibition agents visited his quarters in the House Office Building, found an Army locker trunk marked "B. B. Dawson." "E. D. Denison" might easily be altered to "B. B. Dawson," but Congressman Denison in- sisted the trunk...
...court last week the Government presented its case. Then Mr. Denison, one of whose three attorneys was Everett Sanders, onetime Indiana Congressman, onetime secretary to President Coolidge, took the stand, told his story: a mix-up had occurred on the steamship dock in New York. Mr. Denison had brought home a trunkful of china and glassware as gifts to relatives. By mistake this trunk went to his nephew in St. Louis and the liquor-laden trunk (presumably belonging to the nephew though Mr. Denison did not say so) arrived at the House Office Building. Declared Defendant Denison: "I never bought...
...jury believed Mr. Denison's trunk story, acquitted him in an hour. Solemnly he shook hands all round, announced that he would start a round-the-world trip within a week...
...underlings included. Also he made many a friend, none more loyal than his Reporter Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Author Zona Gale worked for "C. C."; so did Barton Currie (later editor of Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal, World's Work), Will Inglis (secretary to John D. Rockefeller), Lindsay Denison (still a crack staffman on the Evening World), and Ralph Pulitzer, now the World's publisher. Joseph Pulitzer Jr., now publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was fired by C. C. "for laziness...