Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Civil War, U. S. Negroes began to clamor for official positions with the Government which had set them free. An active early colored Abolitionist was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, slave son of a slave mother by a white father. When he fled from Maryland to the North after the wife of his master had secretly taught him to read and write, he changed his name to Frederick Douglass, became famed as an Abolition orator and editor. As his fame grew, Northern friends who feared he would be returned to Maryland under the Fugitive Slave Law sent...
...sang Boola, Boola under the direction of Radio Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross, 1927 Yale track captain. The Montclair Yale Bowl awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his Y in life," first won in 1926 by Pennsylvania Railroad's late President William Wallace Atterbury, went to President Frederick Ely Williamson of the New York Central Railroad, Yale...
Having voted since he was 21, joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Yale and run for New York State Senator in 1934, British-born Poloist Winston Frederick Churchill Guest was pronounced in the District of Columbia Supreme Court a U. S. citizen. Poloist Guest submitted that his mother and he had been repatriated following her separation from her British husband, a point which the U. S. Labor Department questioned...
...vacation in Monticello, Fla. went Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "Are you going to catch any fish?" asked a newshawk. Replied the Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami...
...like Hutter, in Berlin at the Olympics last summer, is William Kendall '40, whose sensational performances are expected to help turn this year's Freshman team into the best Yardling outfit ever to wear the Crimson. Supporting the Australian ace are several other able swimmers like Henry A. Curwen, Frederick W. Griffen, Enno R. Hobbing, Robert Urquhart and Harry Southwick. These men, under the guidance of Lawrence Peterson, new Freshman coach, face their first meet on December 16, with the Lynn Y. M. C. A. as opposition...