Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt who, in one of his inspired moments, launched the Florida Ship Canal with $5,000,000 of relief money last autumn, day after the S. S. Dixie went aground in the treacherous Florida Keys. But it was Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate...
...whose President Hamilton Holt had published much of her early work when he edited the Independent. Author Harris died last year (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935), left the bulk of her estate to three nephews: Captain Frederick Mixon Harris, U. S. A.; William Albinius ("Al") Harris, Philadelphia adman; and John Duncan Harris, cotton millman of Manchester, Ga. Dedicated in Rydal last week was a nondenominational chapel built by these Harrises in memory of Aunt Corra...
University of Oregon (Eugene) President-Elect John Duncan Spaeth of the University of Kansas City ... L.L.D...
Michigan and other states investigating the Legion found its odor distinctly unpleasant. Outraged Pontiac. Mich, citizens, hearing that many of their city officials were connected with Legion activities, began an inquiry of their own. The appearance of Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea's name on a Legion membership blank caused a fine furor in Detroit. To Washington went frantic wires from the Midwest begging the G-Men to step in. Introduced in the U. S. House and Senate was a joint resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
Second big yell went up when the Detroit Guild wired in that Wayne County's Prosecutor Duncan C. ("Dune") McCrea, long at outs with the Hearstian Detroit Times, was thinking of instituting a $100,000 libel suit against the paper for stating that he was a member of the terroristic Black Legion organization, and that if he did he would donate any proceeds from the suit to the Newspaper Guild to help fight for "underpaid Hearst employes...