Word: howe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the possibility of losing ground in these events, Ulen is prepared to make it up in the century and relay. Edward P. Parker '34, and Herbert M. Howe '34 are the listed entries, but Stanley M. Wyman '35 may also be considered unless Ulen wants to use him in the relay. In this case Parker and Howe would team up with George Wightman '34 and Roy. S. Wallace '35, the latter taking Wyman's usual position as number three...
...rule that humorists are uneasy and irascible in their private life. Ed Howe is no exception. Married in 1875 to a wife who bore him three children, he often found his family, like most of his friends, a burden. Behind their brick home in Atchison he built a two-room house in which he lived alone. Thirty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Howe were divorced...
Unlike his marriage, Ed Howe's children turned out well. James Fomeroy Howe, onetime Asiatic correspondent for the Associated Press, is now with their Washington Bureau. Daughter Mateel (Mrs. Dwight Farnham) lives with Mrs. Howe in Westport, Conn. Seven years ago, a year before Ed Howe received $10,000 from the Saturday Evening Post for his autobiography, Mateel Howe won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize for her novel Rebellion, about a daughter's revolt from a tyrannical father...
More like their father than the others is Son Eugene Alexander Howe who ran the Atchison Globe for twelve years after Ed Howe left, then moved to Amarillo, Tex. to start a chain of papers of his own. His column in the Amarillo News-Globe, The Tactless Texan, has given Gene Howe more than his neighborly nickname "Old Tack.'' He got himself nationally quoted in 1928, when he called Lindbergh "swell-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky"; in 1929, when he said that Mary Garden was "so old she actually tottered." When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time...
...spend their holiday discussing Problems swarmed to Washington. Reds and Pinks (National Student League, League for Industrial Democracy) arrived early, as usual got the most press attention by making the most noise. They marched 300-strong to the White House, to serve notice on Presidential Secretary Louis McHenry Howe that they would fight in no Capitalist...