Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barbados Islanders can remember Emanuel Valverde as a penniless pickaninny. But inhabitants of President Street, Brooklyn, remember him as a middleaged, wealthy, slightly bombastic Negro, an exporter of fabulous things to the West Indies. Last week he completed preparations for the realization of his life's dream?to show Barbados the Brooklyn Valverde, the man of importance...
...only 97 ft. long, with a beam of 22 ft. and a draught of 6 ft. 4 in. U. S. inspectors had approved her only for harbor hauls. When Captain Louis Hough, a white man, saw water in the engineroom, he decided to run for shelter behind Delaware Breakwater. Emanuel Valverde, his wife and Willie went below while the Captain vainly tried to get up a sea-bucking head of steam...
...ship's one lifeboat, floated in it off the Delaware Capes for 68 bitter-cold hours. When three of them died, they were slipped overboard by the others. The storm was still raging when the remaining five were rescued by Clyde Line's S. S. Henry R. Mallory. Emanuel Valverde, his wife, Willie the chauffeur and two seamen stayed with the Barbados, the two Packard limousines, the seven pianos and Emanuel Valverde's dream? at the bottom...
Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith last week grappled in Massachusetts. They came out of retirement as a sort of grand finale to the Congressional campaign. Because no other private citizens in the land can match the political prestige of the onetime Republican President or of the onetime Democratic presidential nominee, their words went far & wide across the nation. Characteristically, Citizen Coolidge chose the hushed solitude of a radio broadcasting studio at Springfield to appeal for the election of his old friend, William Morgan Butler, Republican nominee for the Senate. Equally in character, Citizen Smith chose the raucous, turbulent, packed...
...goodnaturedly as he could from beneath a commodious piece of brown headgear which had been shoved down over his ears, not by a Hallowe'ening undergraduate but by a hearty, rough-voiced, middle-aged man whom he did not know very well except that the name was Alfred Emanuel ("Al") Smith. After Mr. Smith of New York left town, Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross reflected that his political baptism in the name of the Brown Derby was by far the most exciting thing that had occurred to him since 1916, when he was appointed Dean of the Yale Graduate School...