Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meeting in Chicago to hear the fact-findings of 35 subcommittees, 145 members of Dr. Glenn Frank's committee, whose job is to draft a Republican program for 1940, found their liveliest inspiration in a statue. Presented by the committee's secretary-pressagent, Journalist William Hard, to G. 0. P. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, it portrayed a streamlined elephant, charging and trumpeting, tusks up, ears back, tail flying, was inscribed, "Let's G. O. Places." In August 1927, Calvin Coolidge, summering in the Black Hills, renounced third-term aspirations by handing out a little slip...
...freedom. Aid reached less than half the boys and girls who asked for it. In 1937 the fund was severely cut (to $50,000,000). Finicky colleges like Harvard and Yale haughtily kept NYA out because its pay was skimpy. It was criticized for having such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, William Green, Owen D. Young, the late Amelia Earhart on its advisory board...
...Glenn Frank (Sat. 8130 p.m., NBC-Red), Republican Program Committee chairman, reports on his committee's Chicago conference...
...Long Island, arb colonies are few and far between. At crowded, middle-class Long Beach, the work of the late, great Glenn O. Coleman, most famed Long Beach native, was exhibited by the Long Beach Dads' Club, which hoped to raise enough money by public subscription to buy a Coleman for the public library. At the other end of the Island at socialite East Hampton, in the handsome Guild Hall and the landscaped gardens around it, young, prolific Wheeler Williams exhibited 85 pieces of sculpture, smooth executions of conventional subjects that ranged from a pipe-playing...
Following week Sherman Minton undertook another form of press-baiting. To appear before his lobby committee, he summoned Maurice Vallee Reynolds, publisher of Rural Progress, a farm monthly edited by Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican Party's Program Committee. Based on the throw-away theory that the meagre income from cheap paid circulation is not worth the money and effort involved in getting it, the 20-odd-page, tabloid-size Rural Progress is mailed free to some 2,000,000 country homes in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Theoretically it depends for its income...