Word: judd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Gentleman (Twentieth Century). For crotchety old Cabot Barr (George Arliss) life in his Barrville manor house is not all beer and skittles. His collection of 106 clocks, his fancy for stuffed peacocks on his lawn, annoy his son Judd (Donald Meek), a small, bald, middle-aged lowlife. The Barrs-son, daughter, two daughters-in-law, granddaughter and adopted grandson-are introduced in The Last Gentleman at a family memorial service for a deceased niece which Cabot Barr arranges because he is not, he says, "the sort of man who gives Christmas parties." They reassemble at Cabot Barrs summer camp...
...sweeping view of U. S. Education, a cumbersome wasteful monster which has grown up without plan or authority, was presented last week by Director Charles Hubbard Judd of University of Chicago's School of Education in Education and Social Progress.* Into his book Director Judd swept the following opinions...
Balked by Congress in his effort to name a mainland Democrat to a $10,000-a-year job, the President was in no hurry to appoint a new Governor. Not until he had been in office nearly a year did he finally pick a successor to Lawrence McCully Judd, descendant of a Yankee medical missionary who went to the Sandwich Islands a century ago. Then he appointed the next best thing to the kind of man he originally wanted?a Democrat who had lived on the islands only 17 years...
Having left Republican Governor Lawrence McCully Judd on the job ten months longer than he had a right to expect, President Roosevelt last week named Democrat Joseph Boyd Poindexter of Honolulu as his successor...
...American Agriculturist, founded in 1842, was run from 1853 to 1883 by Orange Judd, a crony of Horace Greeley, who after the Civil War used it to combat his friend's opinions on reconstruction problems as well as to advise farmers what to feed their pigs. From 1883, when Long Island real estate speculations forced Orange Judd to sell his interest, until 1922, when Henry Morgenthau Jr. bought it, the Agriculturist went slowly to seed. Owner Morgenthau's Editor Edward Roe Eastman doubled its circulation, now 161,145. Last May the Agriculturist, beneath its masthead of cows...