Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsome, bemustached Democrat McWilliams found himself pitted against the most popular Mayor Cleveland has elected since city managership was abandoned in 1929. Son of a professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold Burton migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling...
...Went through the formality of electing New Jersey's Arthur T. Vanderbilt, who had been nominated by A. B. A. delegates last January, president to succeed Minneapolis' Frederick Harold Stinchfield. Lawyer Vanderbilt, 49, is a liberal Republican who, in addition to an active practice, has taught Law at New York University Law School for 23 years, been Chairman of the Judicial Council of New Jersey for seven...
...saga of Harold E. Dahl, the U. S. aviator who fell into Rightist hands while fighting for the Leftist air-force and whose pretty wife has interceded on his behalf with General Franco, this week comes to its climax-Aviator Dahl's trial. Moaned he last week: "I lie in this cell at night and think of her and myself alone together on some South Seas island. . . . Then I come to and say 'What's the use? I'm going to be bumped off by a firing squad...
...fatal blunders. At the beginning of the second quarter Bill Matheny let the ball bounce out of his hands, Nebraska recovered it on Minnesota's 24-yd. line, plunged through for its first touchdown. At the .start of the fourth, after Minnesota had scored a field goal, Substitute Harold Van Every fumbled a punt, Nebraska's Bill Callahan , grabbed it. Two quick passes were enough for Nebraska's-second touchdown and opening-game victory...
...musical life of London in 1888 had more Maggie Moores, Mile. Colombatis and Mme Belle Coles, forgotten today, than Pattis, Nordicas, Richters. Corno di Bassetto, busy with political agitating, missed a new Dvorak symphony and a concert by Harold Bauer (who played the violin for the first ten years of his career before becoming a pianist). Shaw on Patti: There has not yet been witnessed a dramatic situation so tragic that Madame Patti would not get up in the middle of it to bow and smile if somebody accidentally sprung his opera hat. She is simply a marvelous Christy Minstrel...