Word: douglass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Malcolm Douglass Whitman, 55, oldtime tennis star, Manhattan textile man; by jumping from his fifth-floor Manhattan penthouse. Thrice (1898-1900) U. S. singles champion, pioneer (1900, 1902) Davis Cup team player, he researched the game in his 1932 book, Tennis Origins and Mysteries...
...Must Fight does not attempt to solve the insoluble. In its quiet, ironic way it is stirring. The able cast contains Erin O'Brien-Moore as the sweetheart. Douglass Montgomery as the son, Alma Kruger as caustic old Grandmother Seward...
...State dining room plump Mrs. Clayton Douglass Buck was on the President's right because her husky husband runs Delaware, first State to ratify the Constitution. On the President's left in golden spangles, gold shoes and jade earrings was sharp, smart, colorful Mrs. Gifford Pinchot who had just been defeated for Congress in Pennsylvania (see p. 15). On leaving the White House, Governor Roosevelt, always jovial with the Press, when asked what he had discussed with President Hoover, said: "One may not talk when leaving the White House. I've been there before." Governor Pinchot...
Married. Francis V. du Pont, 37. of Wilmington, Del., son of the late Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont; and Janet M. Gram, 24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; in Baltimore. Present was the bridegroom's brother-in-law. Delaware's Governor C. Douglass Buck...
...final round of the East-West tourney for Olympic honors. Had the Minnesota team overcome the combination of New York and Boston players, the Crimson would have today have had an opportunity to show itself superior to the nation's Olympic team; but the stellar play of Douglass Everett '31, and J. B. Garrison '31, forwards on last year's University sextet, helped to down the western champions with a 4 to 0 score...