Word: iv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lanky, idealistic, foot-in-mouth friend, Aubrey Williams (now sidetracked to the Youth Administration). Harrington's own choice was Howard Owen Hunter, a dark, lean, hard-hitting Southerner, who since 1933 has had charge of all Federal relief in 13 Midwest States (WPA's Region No. IV...
...worked for the Red Cross in Louisiana. Howard Hunter has known her well ever since 1935, when Harry Hopkins picked her out of State relief work in Iowa, put her at Hunter's elbow in Chicago running the women's division of WPA's Region No. IV...
...here when the first family immigrant, Sir Richard, came over. His son Henry graduated in the first Harvard class, whence he went back and became a fellow at Oxford. His nephew Nathaniel graduated in 1659, Nathaniel's son Richard II in 1695, Richard III in 1722, Richard IV in 1751. All four of these carried the escutcheon of justice in Haverhill...
Nathaniel II, brother of Richard IV, graduated in 1766, and was also a justice of the peace in Haverhill. His son became Leverett I, Class of 1802, and with him begins the glory of the Leveretts. He became Mayor of Salem, Speaker of the House, president of the Senate, and a member of Congress. Leverett II, 1844, was a Democratic Civil Service Commissioner in Washington...
...chain does not stop where Mr. Shipton has left off, however, for the pages of the directory are now graced with the name of Leverett IV, a member of the Class of 1939. His family have set a precedent which he will have to maintain...