Word: hale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President elected last week, according to the Association's custom of alternating male & female, was a woman: Florence M. Hale, director of rural education in Maine, who succeeded President Willis Anderson Sutton, superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Ga. One of N. E. A.'s vice presidents, she was elected without opposition, prompting Will Rogers to say: "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it. ... There was elected to a very high office . . . just a plain, pleasant-looking, fat (and enjoying it), commonsense woman. ... I guess from her name, 'Miss,' that she is an old maid...
Frederick Hale, U. S. Senator LL.D...
Senator Frederick Hale of Maine and Assistant U. S. Attorney General Seth Whitley Richardson returned from an Alaskan hunting trip. Each had killed two brown bears. Senator Hale brought back three cubs for the Washington...
...bits and a 10 to 2 run victory. The game was a flashy spectacle from start to finish, with the free hitting of the winning Harvard batsmen being offset by the professional in fielding of the Bruin basemen, who staged four fast double plays during the tilt. Mac Hale garnered his second victory of the season over Brown, his delivery proving just as baffling day before yesterday as it did when he helped his team to a 13 to 5 win over the Bruins earlier in the season...
...America where he is later executed as a spy. When the "Swan" writes denunciatory poems to General Washington, the American president sends a special officer in reply to assure her that he had tried to save Andre and had offered him eagerly in exchange for Nathan Hale...