Word: emmet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From last year's Yardling sextet Captain Dem Lloyd, Greeley Summers, Burgy Ayres, George Dreher, and Gordon McGrath have turned out. Also working with the team this year are the Junior Varsity veterans Bob Cox, Phil Downs, John Eaton, Bob Gorham, Dick Noone, Alec Stahn, and Emmet Whittlock...
Year before World War I got going, tall, dignified Albert V. Moore, socialite, and squat, jib-nosed Emmet J. McCormack, ex-tugboat captain, tossed $5,000 into the pot and founded the shipping firm of Moore & McCormack (now Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.). Two years later the shoestring firm bought its first ship for $90,000 (cash: $15,000), christened it the Moormack, put $185,000 worth of repairs into its hull and went after business. From that time on the history of Moore-McCormack is the history of most of today's U. S. merchant marine...
Comstock's boat: Reece, Richards, Pirnie, Walkley, Emmet, Erskine, Brown, Straus, and Wigglesworth...
First of a series of Lincoln films in what Hollywood freely predicts will be Lincoln's greatest year, Young Mr. Lincoln was spotlighted during production by a restraining suit. Robert Emmet Sherwood and his partners in Playwrights Producing Co. Inc. filed the suit on the ground that there was more than coincidence in the similarity in name to Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Broadway hit to be filmed this summer with Raymond Massey). Darryl Zanuck parried that by producing a memo proving that Lincoln was in his thoughts as far back...
...best-selling novel, The Yearling, plump Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize. Other winners: Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (his second), for Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Biographer Carl Van Doren, for Benjamin Franklin; Scripps-Howard Correspondent Thomas L Stokes, for exposing WPA in Kentucky politics...