Word: justins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth won $20 from Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas in a bet that Senator David Aiken Reed, of Pennsylvania, wavering, would vote for the new tariff bill...
Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas: "If we spent 10% of the money we have expended for enforcement of the Volstead Act upon [advertising] the duty of obeying the law, and the daily effect of alcohol, we would almost have cured the anti-Volstead people. . . . There is some doubt as to whether the London Treaty will go over . . . because none of us has been compelled to read it. Turn it over to a modern advertising agency and we will not be able to dodge...
...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; John Francis Harding '30, of Pittsfield; David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey; Armistead Buckner Rood '31, of Concord; and Francis Beattie Thurber '30, of New York. These medals were also given to the manager, James Stanley Jennison '30, of Cambridge, and to his assistant Justin Robert Wolf '32, of Omaha, Nebraska...
...Shakespeare Society is Harley L. Clarke, president of Utilities Power and Light Corp. Others: President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University; President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Rufus Cutler Dawes, financier, brother of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes; Novelists Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson; Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News...
...wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this handsomely romantic operetta based on his life. To music by-Rudolph Friml, in a story taken from an old best-seller by Justin Huntly McCarthy, Dennis King acts a Villon who becomes King of France for seven days, saves Paris from its enemies and wins the hand of his true love, Louis XI's niece. Although the entire cast, including King, caricatures the parts in the familiar cinematic manner, and although there...