Word: dern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emissary President Roosevelt sent Secretary of War Dern, onetime Governor of Utah, to Sacramento to address the conference on the National Recovery Act. Theme of his speech was that States must surrender more & more of their sovereignty to the Federal Government. Declared...
...public affairs. By means of the Indianapolis' high powered wireless, he was even now less than a minute from London. When he steamed up Chesapeake Bay other work & other worry hurried to meet him. To talk Recovery a Cabinet party consisting of Attorney General Cummings, Secretaries Swanson, Ickes, Dern and Roper was waiting to be taken aboard the cruiser, whose isolation the President liked so well that he elected to remain aboard 36 more hours before going to the White House. While his skeleton Cabinet of landlubbers prepared to brave seasickness on the Chesapeake's choppy waters...
George Henry Dern LL.D...
This year Democrats naturally lead. Because of "pressure of affairs" President Roosevelt declined a Rutgers LL.D. but last week Secretaries Dern, Ickes. Perkins and Woodin had time to receive degrees (see below), the last after Syracuse Uni-versity had done some careful pondering. Its College of Fine Arts, oldest of its kind in the U. S., was celebrating its 60th anniversary. It had never given a degree to a nonprofessional, but at last it decided Secretary Woodin is a composer "of high merit." Secretary Wallace was to give the commencement address, nationally broadcast, at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Speaker...
Born on a Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once...