Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left the U. S., Commissioner McNutt had picked and seen installed as his successor M. Clifford Townsend, who is currently building a strong political machine of his own. Recently Governor Townsend. like Senator Minton strongly pro-New Deal, predicted that when Indiana's anti-New Deal Senator Frederick Van Nuys came up for re-election in 1938 he would be roundly defeated. Last week Senator Van Nuys seized the opportunity given him by his Senatorial colleague to make it clear that if he was in the bad graces of Governor McNutt's successor, he still hoped...
...Died. Frederick Burr Opper, 80, famed comic artist, creator of "Happy Hooligan," longtime potent political cartoonist for William Randolph Hearst; of heart disease ; in New Rochelle...
Last spring Dr. Otto Wick of San Antonio, Tex. won the $500 for a work called The Temples of Peshawur. In the $1,000 competition, under pseudonyms, 40 citizens entered quintets which were judged by Composers Frederick Jacobi and Samuel Gardner, onetime Associate Conductor Modeste Alloo of the Cincinnati Symphony. Last week two movements of the prize-winning quintet were played over an NBC program and the composer's name announced: Louis Gruenberg. Well known for his murky, savage Emperor Jones, his light, charming Jack & the Beanstalk, Composer Gruenberg, nevertheless, received his money by mail. This week the Lake...
...school one week on account of an epidemic of infantile paralysis, and planned further weekly postponements until frost ends the season of danger. Meanwhile Omaha children may not go to Sunday school, theatres, parks or swimming pools. Omaha has not a single mechanical respirator similar to that in which Frederick Snite was transported from Peiping to Chicago (TIME, June 14), and every Omaha child whose chest was paralyzed this summer has died in spite of efforts by Omaha's fire department's inhalator squad...
...used his position as Anglo president to wangle profits on the side for himself. This was the suit which last fortnight came to trial on the third floor of San Francisco's post-office building in the marble and plaster-cupid encrusted courtroom of Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure...