Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Duke's Men. It is said that in the days of the great tobacco combine, when dashing young Pierre Lorillard left a director's meeting to join a group of fun-loving friends, James Buchanan Duke said quietly: "I think I'll have to buy me some friends sometime." But like all great tycoons, he could surround himself with able, loyal subordinates. For his board of trustees he chose 15 men he knew well, all Southerners but one. Board president and largest in calibre is George Garland Allen, president of Duke Power Co., vice board-chairman of British-American Tobacco...
...House from 12 to 1.30 o'clock, to which will be invited President Lowell and the fellows of the board of overseers, the members of all the older classes, and the three classes in the University with '81 sons of the class. At 1.30 o'clock the class will join the procession in the alumni exercises, after which they will be entertained by E. H. Whitman '81, and Mrs. Whitman at their home...
From New York to join their half-sister in her black hour hurried Archibald and Kermit Roosevelt. President Hoover sent Col. Campbell Blackshear Hodges, his chief military aide, to Aiken by air. Copper Tycoon Charles Clark offered his private car Errant to Mrs. Longworth. Mourning alone near his master was Charles Eicheoff, for 31 years the Speaker's valet, to whom belonged credit for the famed perfection of the Longworth attire...
Inmates of the Maine State Prison rioted this month when their letter-writing privileges were curtailed (TIME, April 6). In Manhattan last week. Commissioner Bernard J. Fagan of the New York State Division of Parole told a Welfare Council meeting that "through correspondence, prisoners [at Sing Sing] join matrimonial agencies and sometimes have replies from women all over the nation, many of them splendid women. . . . The prisoners give only the street address of the prison in Ossining and often elaborate on the views from the windows and the beauty of the Hudson River. . . . The unsuspecting feminine reader enjoys the letter...
...from the ranks. Expelled last week, however, were Storm Captain Stennes and two aides. Glowering, they prepared to doff the swastika (armband Hitler emblem. See cut). But they also talked of founding a new party, said that storm commanders in Brandenburg. Pomerania. Mecklenburg and East Prussia had promised to join them...