Word: laned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deplored. Last week Mr. West, whose office staff had departed ahead of him, actually did resign. Announced promptly was Mr. West's successor as Under Secretary of the Interior: his special assistant. Harry Slattery, who was also assistant to Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane, later helped do the groundwork exposing the Teapot Dome scandal. Not announced at all was a new job for Mr. West...
FREE LAND-Rose Wilder Lane-Longmans, Green...
...others, like Rose Wilder Lane's Free Land, look solidly good to begin with, turn out to contain the sort of black specks that are sometimes found inside the best-appearing small potatoes. Well-written, soberly sentimental, Free Land is the story of a newly-married homesteader in the Dakota territory. Although claim jumpers, land-grabbers, Indians, horse thieves, come into the story, and the hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events...
...James Tobin 141 *J. Spence Harvin 139 Cleveland Amory 136 Clarence E. Boston 133 Edmond L. Cherbonnier 128 Oliver P. Bolton 128 Robert M. Bunker 122 Robert E. L. Strider 114 Richard P. Hedblom 112 Donald L. Daughters 95 Lawrence F. Ebb 87 Ellsworth S. Grant 82 Robert E. Lane 80 Frank P. Davidson 77 Laurence S. Levy 74 Paul R. Wentworth 72 Harold M. Curtiss, Jr. 69 William L. Calfee 52 Hunter Hendee 50 Alfred J. Hanlon, Jr. 35 Total 421 Invalid 14 *Elected 421 ballots cast in 1939 election. 508 ballots cast in 1940 election...
...default settled the 3 to 2 victory yesterday as the Straus tennists edged out Massachusetts in the Yardling interdorm league. Art Medalie led off with a victory over Regnar Bird of the Messes, while Strausite Hank Leavitt annihilated manager Lane. Stan Leven and Ernie Singer of Masachusetts Wen, so Jim Pattee's victory by default settled the score...