Word: garfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman James R. Garfield of the resolutions committee arrived from Washington to be besieged immediately by a swarm of newshawks. In the room at the Congress where his father received the choice which made him the 20th President, Chairman Garfield neatly dodged all reference to the President's Prohibition platform desire with an agility such as he once used when Secretary of the Interior in the Roosevelt "tennis Cabinet." He could not "speak for the President," but could speak for "responsible Republicans." He hurriedly added that Mr. Hoover was a responsible Republican...
Platform Carpenter. To head the Chicago convention's resolutions committee which will carpenter the platform President Hoover selected James Rudolph Garfield, 66-year-old son of the 20th President of the U. S.* This tall, solemn, white-haired Cleveland lawyer served as Secretary of the Interior under Roosevelt, stood by him "at Armageddon...
...Cheney, D. C. Clos, Roland Cooper, R. R. Covell, J. C. Cowdin, T. L. Dammann, H. S. Derrickson, J. R. Divens, R. A. Dow, G. T. Dudman, R. F. Dur, R. G. Durham, S. S. Durry, R. L. Eastland, Lawrence Edmonds, J. C. Ewer, T. B. Gannett, I. McD. Garfield, R. f. Gillette, J. C. Haggott, J. D. Hague, J. B. Hamblet, W. A. Harken, e. N. Hartley, D. W. Haycock, R. H. Heburn, Fisher Howe, II. F. W. Jones, K. R. Kimball, R. M. Leighton, D. W. Lewis, S. H. Lewis, F. R. Littlefield, T. F. Locke...
...Chicago, after paying $32,500 of alimony in 13 years, Garfield J. Schieferstein, onetime rich realtor who lived "like a hermit in one of my vacant flats, with a bed and a chair as my only furniture," committed suicide. He left a note: "I leave this world because I have been ruined by my wife and the laws and courts that make the racket of alimony possible. ... I had the grief and my wife had the gravy. Goodby, world, you are too much...
...listed permanent 150-pound shells are: First Crew--Stroke, Whitney; 7, Garfield; 6, Bill; 5, Brewster; 4, Nichols; 3, Herman; 2, Berrien; Bow, Hepburn; Cox, Harmon. Second Crew--Stroke, Jopling; 7, Simonds; 6, Nichols; 5, Pfaelzer; 4, Willis; 3, Prouty; 2, Bigelow; Bow, Mello; Cox, Russell