Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Bowditch '35 assistant dean in charge of Freshmen, was elected to the executive council of the Cambridge Council of Boy Scouts. His elevation to the post was announced last week at their annual dinner...
With this scene enacted, Frank Hague took his affable puppet to Trenton to be inaugurated as the first New Jersey Governor to serve three terms. Before receiving the State's Great Seal from Harold G. Hoffman, the man he gave it to three years before, Mr. Moore wrote himself a letter of resignation as U. S. Senator. His first act in office was to acknowledge and approve his own resignation, Ms next was to appoint John Milton to the U. S. Senate...
John Milton's appointment was a God-given gift to two rival Manhattan newspapers, David Stern's Post and the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, which were last week running featured Frank Hague series. Among the facts dug up from old investigations was that John Milton was Frank Hague's personal banker. John Milton's checks, for instance, paid for the $6,250-per-year mayor's $125,000 estate. The mayor always reimbursed his lawyer in cash. When investigators started to probe John Milton's own affairs, he blandly declared that he had just...
...nearly half a century William Vincent Astor, biggest, richest U. S. landlord, friend and fellow-fisherman of Frank-lin Roosevelt, has tinkered with trains- toy and real. On his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm a foot-high locomotive chuffs over 600 yd. of miniature track, while its owner potently sits on the boards of such full-sized lines as Great Northern and Illinois Central. Five years ago Railroader Astor purchased five acres of Bermuda's 19 square miles of tax free soil,* began to build a lordly tropical house, "Ferry Reach," and meantime extended his land along the waterfront...
...process of crystallization since 1933, the MARS exhibition was actually one of the most effective presentations of modern architecture and planning ever made. As Frank Lloyd Wright has gone back to Thoreau for common sense on building (TIME, Jan. 17), MARS architects and engineers invoked the authority of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion...