Word: garrette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan frequently gather some 20 of the ace propagandists in the U. S. This unpublicized, high-powered group calls itself the Council on Public Opinion, chairman is the nation's No. 1 publicist, dark, Machiavellian Edward L. Bernays. Others: General Motors' Public Relations Counsel Paul Willard Garrett, American Iron and Steel Institute's John Wiley Hill, Rockefeller...
Tennessee's Finis James Garrett served in the House of Representatives continuously from 1905 to 1929. In 1923. 1925 and 1927 he was nominated for what has often been called the second most important job in the U. S.-the House Speakership. Republican majorities defeated him each time and by 1928 Representative Garrett was convinced that the best he could ever hope for in the House was the minority leadership he had held for five years. In 1928, he ran against bumbling Kenneth McKellar in the primary for the U. S. Senate. Opposed by Memphis' potent Boss Edward...
...Calvin Coolidge made Finis Garrett an associate judge of the U. S. court of customs and patent appeals (salary: $12,500). Three weeks ago, the court's Presiding Judge William J. Graham died. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee was considering the man Franklin Roosevelt had nominated as Judge Graham's successor: 62-year-old Finis James Garrett...
...this point, Hurricane has an unforgettable feeling of dark forces closing in around a wild free man. When they turn the wind loose, however, Authors Nordhoff & Hall, Screenwriters Dudley Nichols & Oliver H. P. Garrett wash out their own story. They also wash all the trees, houses, boats, animals and people off the atoll, leaving nothing but the Robert Edmond Jonesish ruin of a church. The hurricane lasts for 20 minutes. It is a technically superb, terrifying combination of miniatures, real storm shots, tank shots, stage shots made with wind machines, all blended with bursts of inhuman music as savage...
Graduates who have been appointed to the Fellowships in recent years are: William W. Foshay '31, David D. Lloyd '31, Garrett Birkhoff '32, Henry C. Hatfield '33, Peter Shuebruk '32, Meyer H. Abrams '34, Cesar L. Barber '35, Thomas H. Hunter '35, George L. Haskins '35, Sidney S. Alexander '36, Robert C. Hall '36, August C, Helmholz, 2nd '36, Neil G. Melone '37, and Peter R. Viereck...