Word: lansinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Michigan Legislature cooled its heels in Lansing waiting for a program to be submitted by Detroit bankers, the State Senate voted to make Governor Comstock banking dictator.* The House, wary, postponed action. Breezy, baldish, bespectacled Bill Comstock has long headed the State Democratic organization. His election last autumn...
Died. Addison Mizner, 60, famed Palm Beach host, raconteur, realtor, author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he...
Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie") Collins is Princeton's secretary; Frederick Leroy Hutson its onetime registrar. Adam Leroy Jones is director of admissions at Columbia; George Dobbin Brown was librarian at General Theological Seminary. Princeton teachers but not "preceptor guys" were Scientists Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Owen Willans Richardson. Variously famed...
"Ed" or "Duff" Duffield was graduated the same year as the late Author Jesse Lynch Williams, the late Georgia Publisher Boudre Phinizy, Alonzo Church, vice-chancellor of New Jersey, Dr. Evan Evans, rich Manhattan physician. Lawyer Theodore Wilson Morris Jr., partner of Democrat John William Davis, and Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie...
In the Preliminary last week, first shooter in the field to post 25 straight was 17-year-old Bobby Olds of Lansing, Mich., who had a special desire to win. Last spring his family was evicted from their farm. Young Olds hawked vegetables, cultivated an onion patch, spent his spare...