Word: finley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California's egg-headed Governor Frank Finley Merriam has done his best to deserve Columnist Westbrook Pegler's description of him as "a statesman who can be relied on to condemn the housefly and the common cold . . . never straddling the proposition that right is right and wrong is wrong." In 21 months of Republican incumbency, he has flirted with Dr. Francis E. ("$200-a-month") Townsend's plan, been for and against the New Deal, interested in the Mooney case but not interested enough to do anything about...
Married. Frank Finley Merriam, 70, Governor of California; and Jessie Stewart Lipsey, 66, onetime Iowa acquaintance; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...urbane satirist. It has had bucolic satirists, like Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne and Mark Twain, bull-roarers like H. L. Mencken, splenetic idealists like Sinclair Lewis, ironic fantasists like James Branch Cabell and Robert Nathan. But last week critics hitched up their chairs, clapped on their best glasses and took a good hard look at Thomas Sigismund Stribling's latest novel, Sound Wagon. Before reading it, few would have admitted that Author Stribling might be capable of urbanity, let alone sustained satire. After reading it, many might have allowed that here at last was a U. S. satirical...
...start it with a flourish. Because the China Clipper's cargo was entirely mail, Postmaster General Farley was asked to play the lead in the hour's program. Other speaking parts were taken by Pan American's President Juan Terry Trippe, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam, Hawaii's Governor Joseph Boyd Poindexter, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, the Philippine's President Manuel Quezon, China Clipper's Captain Musick, and the personified "Voices" of Pan American bases at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila. By a complicated use of short wave, all these scattered personalities...
Died. Mrs. Harold Elstner Talbott, 71, first citizen of Dayton, Ohio, co-founder of the famed Westminster Choir and Choral School; of a heart attack; in Dayton. Rich Mrs. Talbott, long a Presbyterian Church choir singer, founded her group nine years ago with Dr. John Finley Williamson, financed it liberally, accompanied it on trips to 200 U. S. cities and, in 1929, a European tour. Busy with the Choir and other causes, Mrs. Talbott raised nine children, had 32 grandchildren for whom she purchased a 24-passenger...