Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor: Monday morning quarterback school is called to order, gentlemen. Carl Snavely of Cornell and Red Blaik of Dartmouth go to the head of the class this morning. Step right up, boys...
...Congressional chums on his thumbs. The decline and fall of Jacob Thorkelson in his colleagues' esteem began with his comradeship with Fascist-minded Major General Van Horn Moseley. It continued when he stuffed the Record with weird anti-Roosevelt statements, when he pointed out how many Jews head House committees. Fortnight ago the Thorkelson decline thumped bottom when he packed the Record with an eleven-column letter supposedly written by Colonel Edward M. House. Woodrow Wilson's brain trust, to David Lloyd George, on June 10, 1919. The letter, instantly spotted as a fake by scholars, proposed...
...County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...
...Four days after Prien's U-boat raid, Nazi planes in five waves swept over the Flow plunking bombs. They approached from the north over the central port of Kirkwall, where 60 neutral ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters engaged them. Two of their bombs hit close to Iron Duke, damaging but not sinking her. British fighting planes and anti-aircraft fire drove off these raiders, downing five. Britain saw that in this war Germany is not going...
Peppy, pottering Dr. Herbert Putnam, 78, longtime head of the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. (now librarian emeritus), was given the J. W. Lippincott Award ($500) for distinguished service in librarianship, in accepting told the American Library Association, outspoken opponent of President Roosevelt's selection of Poet Archibald MacLeish to succeed him, that as a Scot, poet, humanist, lawyer, soldier, and orator, Poet MacLeish was a fine man to be Congressional Librarian...