Word: holt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Virginia's overdressed, cadaverous Matthew Mansfield Neely quit the Senate to become Governor of the State last Jan. 12 at midnight, he exercised his new gubernatorial power to appoint as his successor his old friend Dr. Joseph Rosier, president of Fairmont State Teachers College. But Homer Adams Holt, who retired as Governor that same night, likewise claimed the right to make the appointment, naming his old friend Clarence Eugene Martin, ex-president of the American Bar Association...
Still arguing as the clock struck 12, outgoing Holt and quick-change artist Neely made their separate, solemn appointments for the Senate seat that was not vacant until the instant Neely vacated it. Long and wearily Senate legal pundits debated who should get the decision. Four months passed...
...Frances Hutchins, Pine Manor Edward F. Green Tamara Polevoy, Radcliffe Laurence K. Groves Nancy Moore, Beaver Richard F. Hunnewell K. Lawrence Bundy, Radcliffe S. Donald Russell Norma Dietz, Newton Elliott C. Lasser Phyllis Adler, Lafayette J. Drennan Lowell Martha Gallison, Brimmer-May John F. Otto, Jr. Virginia Lee Holt, Cincinnati, Ohio William P. Palmer Patricia Crehore, Radcliffe Arthur H. Phelan Mary Alexander, Mt. Holyoke Walter H. Pistole, Jr. Sydney McKenna, Radcliffe Jerome Preston, Jr. Lloyd Fursman, Beaver Albert M. Rockwood Marion Prentice, Wellesley George A. Saxton, Jr. Phyllis Hanson, Skidmore Robert S. Smith Florence Scott, Long Island, N. Y. Robert...
Engaged. Rush Dew Holt, 35, West Virginia's isolationist junior Senator from 1935 to 1941 (youngest ever elected); and Helen Froelich, 26, teacher at National Park Seminary, near Washington...
...ages men watched helplessly while these vegetable vampires literally sucked the green blood of plants, wasted their crops. But about 100 years ago, men armed themselves with scientific weapons and began a desperate war-still raging-against the fungal underworld. Last fortnight, in The Advance of the Fungi (Holt; $4), British Chemist E. C. Large offered a vivid story of the last century's battles, a brilliant reconnaissance of the enemy's present positions...