Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Washington an Associated Pressman had a talk about Reedsville with Charles E. Pynchon, the big, genial, earnest onetime Chicago steelman who took over the general managership of Subsistence Homesteads when its original director, Milburn Lincoln Wilson, moved to the Department of Agriculture. Afterward the APer filed a dispatch quoting Manager Pynchon to the effect that the Government stood to lose $500,000 on the Reedsville project, with blame laid partly on "experimentation," partly on "errors in judgment." He also revealed that the President's No. 1 Secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, purchaser of the famed CCC toilet...
...most recent of the just-short-of-a-hit plays, which may build into a real smash before many weeks go by, is "Fly Away Home," produced by a new luminary amongst Broadway impressarios. Theron Bamberger, and starring that genial and expansive actor-director. Thomas Mitchell. This opus written by a couple of unknowns and housed the 48th Street Theatre since its opening ten days age, is probably the furriest and certainly the most wholesomely bawdy comedy of the year...
...musical, young man, go musical," said Paul Whiteman, genial kind of Jazz, in his dressing room yesterday between shows of his radio stage revue in current Boston presentation, and by the same token added "Go college, young musician go college...
President Edwin Rogers Embree of the Julius Rosenwald Fund has never left anyone in doubt of his low esteem for Southern educational standards. But President Embree is an exceedingly genial man and last spring when he passed through Baton Rouge he allowed newshawks to quote him as saying that Louisiana State University had "every right to come to be included in the first twelve or 15 universities" of the U. S. Month ago James Monroe Smith, president of L. S. U., quoted Mr. Embree as predicting the imminent inclusion of his institution among the first dozen U. S. universities. When...
City fathers, bankers, businessmen, churchmen and miscellaneous bigwigs of Houston, Tex., gathered in Scottish Rite Cathedral for a solemn celebration of Jesse Holman Jones Day. In the audience, the big, genial chairman of Reconstruction Finance Corp. bowed his head, heard seven speakers eulogize him as a publicist, charitarian, politician, financier, "the most dominant and dynamic individual factor in the upbuilding and progress of our great city." Then a bronze bust was unveiled. Said Houstonman Jones: "I almost feel as if I have been listening to a funeral oration...