Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until this week the sharpest turning point in the career of the Rev. Dr. Prof. L&233;vitt occurred in 1932 when his Independent Republican Party, with a Prohibition platform, drew enough votes from Boss J. Henry Roraback's candidates to insure some New Deal successes, although Gubernatorial Candidate L&233;vitt himself got only about 10,000 votes. For his services the New Deal, in a hasty move, took Mr. L&233;vitt to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, himself a onetime Connecticut politician. Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing...
...faced no less than 100 newshawks who swarmed outside the City of Norfolk's, Cabin 18, the newest member of the Supreme Court was affability itself. Addressing Jesse Frederick Essary, Baltimore Sun man who is Doyen of the Washington press corps, as "Fred," he drew him into the cabin, consulted with him and then sent him back out into the corridor with word that an interview would follow breakfast. Then Mr. Justice Black popped his head out in the hall to order ham & eggs; refused a pile of Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes offered by William Herman Mylander, Washington representative...
Eventually the policy had to be discontinued when it was ascertained that adults drew the passes but as often as not neglected to take the children in, and again because everything unanchored within Soldiers Field would usually disappear...
Ranking with Captain Erhard among the hopeful harriers is two miler Bill Wright. Jaakko has hopes for Wright as a successful cross country man. On the track last year he showed steady improvement. Though earlier in the season he steadily trailed Henry Marcy in the long run he gradually drew up to Marcy and finally claimed the lead. Roswell Brayton is a man who may come into the light this year. Whereas Erhard and Wright are coming into their last year of college and intercollegiate competition, Brayton has the advantage of being only a Junior this year...
...last, and their human peculiarities. He knew how to flatter an athletic without swelling his head. His sense of humor was spontaneous and wholesome, and he was never without it. Frank was a personality, not a mere person, and in his seven years of service to Harvard University, he drew many close friends from those who saw him every day, every month. He would listen to their troubles without telling his own and lighten them with a smile and a joke. For Frank was an institution, and will be greatly missed by all those that knew...