Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of that 'punch-pulling' Student Council Committee, I had the opportunity to get a really intimate picture of the condition," stated the head of the Committee that wrote a twenty page report on tutoring schools two years...
Figurehead and real head of the fair is Grover Aloysius Whalen. And the fair as it stands today-a $157,000,000 extroversion of Mr. Whalen's fantastic extrovert personality-gives him fair claim to the title of greatest salesman alive today. Grover Whalen suggested the fair in 1935 and a civil engineer named Joseph Shadgen came through with a historical excuse-the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme...
...William Tudor Gardiner, twice Governor of Maine and now head of Boston's Incorporated Investors, raised Nathaniel Drummond ("Nat") Moore to the presidency of his $10,000,000 Pacific Coast Co. (railroads, steamships, mines, cement factories), succeeding Thomas Arthur Davies, who resigned to handle personal interests. Grey-haired Nat Moore has worked for Pacific Coast for 40 years, knows his 1,000 employes by their first names...
...Louis XVI-to his courtiers "that great hog"-whose consistent blunders, according to Author Padover, mark the consistent advances of the Revolution, and make him the king-cog of the revolutionary turnover. Much new archive material documents this competent appraisal of an unheroic fat man trying to keep his head in a high historical wind. Inescapable is the conclusion that the bolshevik bourgeois and proletarians of 1793 "liquidated" the one French king who was more bourgeois than Bourbon, with a wide stripe in him of poor but honest artisan...
...previously announced, at the head of the list is Hildegarde, who is traveling from New York especially for the Yardling gathering. According to George A. Kuhn, Jr., Chairman of the Smoker Committee, she will do some "double piano work" and "will sing in her own inimitably style." The "women and song" motif will be completed when "the first lady of swing," Ella Fitzgerald, gives out with some of her famous arrangements...