Word: grovers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eddie Cantor. Mrs. Crowell has three children and has written 1,900 poems, a large number of them about the Home. Last week she arrived in Manhattan with her husband, was put up at the St. Moritz, given a medal, presented to Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, Grover Whalen. Said Mrs. Crowell: "Womanhood is fundamentally sound...
Only six major-leaguers in the long history of U. S. baseball had attained that niche before Lefty Grove: Walter Johnson (3,497 strikeouts in 21 years), Cy Young (2,836), Christy Mathewson (2,447). Rube Waddell (2,369), Grover Cleveland Alexander (2,184), Dazzy Vance...
...Yorker, Manhattan smart-chart, ran an interview with Grover Aloysius Whalen, fine-figured president of New York's forthcoming World's Fair (seep. 35). Excerpts: "My personal investigation in Europe has conclusively proved to me that there'll be no war. Why, the uncle of the King of Egypt told me today that there positively will be no war. ... A wave of enthusiasm for the World's Fair is sweeping Europe. That's what Europe is thinking of now-not war." Also last week the enterprising Mr. Whalen was pleased to pose with a group...
...Corporation had scandalized their name by failing to provide space for an art exhibition at the Fair (TIME, Feb.7). Quickly yanked aloft into secret scurryings at the Fair's Empire State Building headquarters, this controversy made no further news until last week. Then, in a magnanimous backtrak, President Grover Whalen of the Fair Corporation announced plans for a great exhibition of contemporary U.S. art, to be housed in a $300,000 building once intended for a show of "arts in production." The distinguished chairman of the governing committee is President A. (for Anson) Conger Goodyear of the Museum...
Faced with the liveliest mystery in Arkansas criminal records, police were last week looking for Will Hebner, dead or alive, and for his brothers, to see if they could identify the corpse in the Hebner cellar. Informed by the Deputy Prosecutor that her Miami friend, Grover, had hoped to marry her, grey-haired, 55-year-old Mrs. Hebner, indicted last week for Hebner's murder, betrayed maidenly confusion. Said she: "Well, I didn't know that. It certainly was nice...