Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motoring to the Capitol, Florida's Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 74, was cut and bruised when a truck collided with his automobile...
Married. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, 34, carpet tycoon, international poloist; and Film Actress Mary Duncan, 28; in Manhattan...
Tamiris (née Helen Becker) was born in Manhattan 30 years ago of a Jewish family. She learned to dance first in the din of Brooklyn's streets, under the elevated tracks. Later she studied with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and briefly in the Isadora Duncan and Fokine schools. In 1929 she was the only dancer at Austria's Salzburg Festival, startled sedate Europeans by her renditions of jazz and Negro spirituals. In spite of her formal training, Tamiris considers herself largely self-schooled, likes to think of her dancing as part of an indigenous...
About 1810 the Rev. Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Scotland became worried by the thriftlessness of his parishioners. Persuading them to bring their surplus pennies to the manse each week, he finally hit on the idea of a mutual savings bank. The bank belonged to depositors; there were no stockholders. Long regarded as an excellent means of making the poor help themselves, mutual savings banks rooted quickly in the U. S., but never firmly either south of the Potomac or west of the Alleghenies. In those regions the poor either stayed poor or relied on stock savings banks, commercial banks...
...Last week Washington's quasi-tropical sun, blazing down upon the Capitol, did its best to drain the vitality of all men who went about their business there. And perspiration stood upon the white fringed brow-as round and far more sunburned than the Capitol dome- of Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher. The venerable Senator might have been spared that ordeal. He might have returned to his constituents and sat with proper refreshment under the palm trees where the Atlantic laps on Florida's coral strand. His age, 74, entitled him to that surcease. Forty years as a holder...