Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Familiar to most U. S. blasphemers is the ballad about the Biblical football game played on Christmas Day in St. Peter's old back yard. Last week before an eminently respectable audience-a father-&-son dinner in Brandywine Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del.- Football Coach Harvey John Harmanof the University of Pennsylvania picked a Biblical football team he would have liked to coach. The lineup...
...ministers that Coach Harman's Biblical team is no publicity stunt but the nub of a talk he has delivered at dinners and to young churchgoers some 200 times in the past six years. Son of a Lutheran minister and brother of another, bulky, slow-speaking Harvey Harman, 36, speaks once a week for nothing, as often as he is additionally booked for pay. Says he: "I like to help out the preachers, because they have a hard time holding the young people...
...loud rap sounded one evening last week at the door of a banquet room in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in which sat Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, Munitions Tycoon Alexis Felix du Pont, Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand...
Thus did Publisher Julius David Stern give texts for a sermon about "a $100,000 blowout for the cream of U. S. society . . . with all the gloss and gaiety of the careless, incredible, forgotten days before the Crash," and James Harvey Gravell's "way of showing his faith in the New Deal...
...fresh-painted picket fence, all details such as pink satin walls, pink lilies and pink soapsuds fountain in the swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.* Invidiously balanced against a paragraph pointing out that Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's fortune was established by his grandfather, the Record reported that James Harvey Gravell started to make a rustproof paint preparation in 1914 with nothing but "a bucket, a broomstick and a good idea," built up a $1,250,000 business with branches in Detroit and Walkerville...