Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grove & Davila. Jaunty and glib, Colonel Marmaduke Grove has figured in several Chilean revolutions, attempted one in 1930, using for purposes of getting into Chile from Argentina the airplane Friendship in which Passenger Amelia Earhart first crossed the Atlantic. Captured by troops loyal to Dictator Ibanez, the Colonel was exiled to Easter Island. There he pumped the Chilean Governor of this colony so full of revolutionary ideas that Governor & Colonel set out in a small boat to Tahiti, later made their way to France. In July 1931, after Dictator Ibanez was ousted, Colonel Grove returned to Chile, has been intriguing...
...Samuel Insull by marriage. In addition to his utility accounts he has Curtiss Candy (Baby Ruth), Florsheim Shoes, Paris Garters, Rosehill Cemetery, Sheaffer Pens. Well known in circles other than advertising, he sits on Chicago's Board of Education. His interest in public affairs derives from his long friendship with Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart. Boss Taggart controlled French Lick Springs, and the McJunkin Agency still has its account (though it lately lost the Associated Pluto Water business to H. W. Kastor & Sons...
...have friendly baseball games, invite the local policemen to athletic events, entertain them at the clubs and promote a feeling friendship? W. T. Harrison...
...elsewhere (i. e. to the Equitable bus people) for traveling expenses? Nevertheless, Inquisitor Seabury wanted an explanation for the Block aid. It was forthcoming when the quixotic publisher, who has often been seen at ringside and banquet table with the Mayor and whose Port Chester summer home is named "Friendship," took the stand...
...regulations at present are a petty and annoying hinderance to the formation and continuance of friendships which men make with students resident in other Houses. The contacts made in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities most easily ripen into friendship over the iced-tea and the Boston baked beans. The House Plan recognizes that this is true, and throws men together for their meals that they may learn to know one another. The system now in operation, however, in effect limits the influence to the individual Houses, and may, as the House Plan succeeds, result in severing the ties...