Word: hummell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of crusty Republican diehards huffily resigned. Another last-minute expedient was to lease part of the clubhouse to Chicago's Interfraternity Council. But last week Democratic Federal Judge William H. Holly ordered the Hamilton to liquidate in favor of the Fuller estate, appointed Banker Fred E. Hummel as receiver...
...Receiver Hummel granted the Hamilton's 46 resident members until the end of the month to vacate. Most puzzling problem of Manager B. E. O'Grady was what to do with a stuffed seated elephant, borrowed from the late President Lucius G. Fisher of the defunct Elephant Paper Bag Co., which has accompanied jubilant Hamilton crowds on their special train to Washington for every Republican inauguration since...
...common clothes moth, which goes under the full-dress name of Tineola bisselliella Hummel, is an oyster-colored insect with a wingspread of about ½ in. The larvae look like chestnut worms, eat furs, feathers and wool, spin translucent tubes in which they spend most of their time. They also spin webs on their feeding grounds, and, finally, cocoons from which the moths emerge. They may be inactivated by naphthalene in flakes or moth balls, sunlight, air, cedar chests, mothproof paper bags, temperatures below 40°. Under the Federal Insecticide Act it is a crime to sell (in interstate commerce...
...World Waits (by George F. Hummel; Frank Merlin, producer) is a depiction of life in the murky base cabin of the Hartley Antarctic expedition, toward the end of a two-year stay. It resembles Journey's End in having an all-male cast and a rigid youth (Philip Truex, son of Actor Ernest Truex) whose gibberings point up the venomous fortitude of the others. To forestall suspicion which might have occurred to auditors who knew that Correspondent Russell Owen of the Byrd Expedition had helped with the script and setting, the producers warned in the program that The World...