Word: jovialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wallace Wade's Duke teams have been improving ever since (conference champions 1935-1936). His 1936 team was selected, by one statistician at least,* as the best in the U. S. But playing against his archrival, Tennessee's jovial Major Bob Neyland, Coach Wade just missed an undefeated season by a last-minute Tennessee touchdown...
...groups of greying men, well-chaperoned by their Ladies' Auxiliary, enjoying a few days of comradeship in bar, hotel and auditorium. Last week in Buffalo, the Veterans dispatched their routine agenda in short order. Elected Commander for the coming year was Oklahoma's Scott P. Squyres, a jovial World War veteran professing Indian descent. On the speakers' list with headline peace material were such names as New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, New York's Governor Lehman, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Oklahoma's Senator Josh...
...members as Chief Counsel William Thomas Kelley, a hulking, red-faced lawyer who booms and beats the table and has been with FTC from the start, more than 20 years ago; his chief assistant, Armand De Birney, onetime ace investigator for the Veteran's Bureau; Economists Francis Walker, jovial Willis Jerome Ballinger and Corwin D. Edwards. Assistant to the chairman and the FTC's pressagent is Joe Baker, tall, slim, leathery, onetime...
...plant at North Bergen, N. J. Dr. Emanuel Spielholz, Duro-Test consultant, was back from a European survey with $150,000 worth of krypton extracting machinery purchased abroad, to which he expects to add some refinements of his own. President of Duro-Test is a small, jovial Jew named Maxwell Monroe Bilofsky, who is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and keeps a ticker running in his downtown office. Dr. Bilofsky, who has no great love for his gargantuan competitor, General Electric Co., claims that General Electric-which has affiliations with Philips of Holland-has done its best...
Whatever the Monster was, it was a godsend to Loch Ness hotelkeepers, tourist agencies, omnibus operators. At the height of the 1934 excitement newshawks suddenly remembered the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, at the southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus...