Word: ella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) Mrs. Henry Thomas (Ella McBride) Rainey, wife of the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives ...... LL.D. Miss R. Louise Fitch, dean of women, Cornell University ....... Litt.D. Miss Caroline Palmer, dean of women, Biblical Seminary, Manhattan ...... Litt.D...
...same name, presumably wives, daughters, sons, brothers or sisters on the payroll. ¶ Six members (Ohio's Brand, Louisiana's Fernandez, Texas' Garner, Texas' Williams, Minnesota's Christgau, Kentucky's Thatcher) with two namesakes hired. ¶ Democratic Floor Leader Rainey paying his wife Ella $208.33 per month as secretary. ¶ Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee paying Laura Collier $180 per month. ¶Chairman Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee paying Mary Vinson $116.66 per month...
...every evening on the Camel Quarter Hour between Morton Downey's ballads. The two called Tony's Scrap Books are anthologies of noble thoughts, snatches of homely humor, tributes to beauty, diligence, nature, perseverance, motherhood, home, etc. Some are from Edgar Albert Guest, Dr. Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin...
...courts, schools, it is a model, moral settlement. Paternal & religious, Robert Alexander Long delights in the title of Founder. "Men in business today need many friends," is one of his maxims. By his side for 53 years Robert Long had someone who filled that need. It was his wife Ella whom he married the day he went into lumber and who died four years ago after 53 years of partnership. "No one knows better than I the part she played in whatever success has come to my ventures in business," was a tribute he paid her at the height...
...year later, they separated, were divorced last year. He continued steeplechasing, flying, helped develop swanky Arlington Park Race track, interests with which he did not allow his connection with the Merchandise Mart (Marshall Field's wholesale branch) gravely to interfere. Last winter, aged 26, he took to wife Ella de Treville Snelling of the Boston Snellings, a smart horsewoman and fancy ice-skater. She made him give up steeplechasing. Last week James Simpson, Jr. made known his new interest. Backed principally by himself & wife, he announced that he was a candidate for Congress in the North Shore district...