Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found dead Governor Clifford Townsend of Indiana paid a pre-arranged call at the White House. His remarks to the press in leaving were almost ignored in the excitement of bigger news, but they were not overlooked at the Capitol. Of Indiana's two Democratic Senators, one, Frederick Van Nuys has been a vigorous opponent of the President's Court Plan, the other, Sherman Minton, as vigorous a supporter. Governor Townsend told the press that he didn't "think the organization could nominate Van Nuys again." At the Capitol the Governor's words were taken...
...route to the Salzburg Festival (see p. 37) Mr, 6 Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. stopped at a Caen hotel, registered as Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Hall...
...team "Presidents" (captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever to pole-vault 13 ft., who got-his vaulting tips by corresponding with U. S. experts. At Cambridge, Mass, last fortnight Oxford-Cambridge swept the flat races as anticipated, added a victory in the shot put to beat Harvard-Yale, 7 first places...
...unpalatable to Britons was the Irish situation of last week that London papers joined in a conspiracy of silence much like that with which they concealed Mrs. Simpson as long as possible. "For all one reads in the British press about tomorrow's election," cabled London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall to the New York Times, "it might just as well be taking place in Bulgaria or Bolivia...
...London last week His Majesty's Loyal Opposition strongly identified themselves with the French and Spanish Leftist Governments. Declared prominent British Laborite Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, M. P.: "I desire to make it clear that members on the Labor benches are ready to support any action which, without injuring our position, is of benefit to the other democratic nation across the English Channel...