Word: latta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret joke which made him feel particularly good. But for all their fishing with well-baited questions the correspondents could get nothing more from him than that he might be sending still another special message to Congress that afternoon. Thus it was no great surprise when White House Messenger Latta trotted into the Capitol at 2 o'clock that same day with a Presidential document under his arm, trotted out again. What was surprising was that the Roosevelt message should be held back for more than two hours until Senator Pat Harrison could get the Social Security Bill through...
...Lately the du Ponts' Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (circ. 55,000) needed an executive editor. Du Pont headquarters got in touch with the person who knows most about available editors-Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher. Editor Pew had just the man, his old friend William Latta Mapel, a big, brawny, bespectacled fellow ten years out of University of Missouri School of Journalism. For five years "Bill" Mapel had been director of journalism at Washington & Lee University. He was president of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism. So devoted was he to Editor Pew that...
...Crookston, Minn., Everett Latta. fisherman, saw a golden eagle soar past him. Everett Latta cast his line, hooked the golden eagle, knocked it off a tree with a chunk of dirt, strangled it to death with his fish line...
Died. Rev. Latta Griswold. 55. of Lenox, Mass., author (Deering of Deal, Deering at Princeton, The Winds of Deal, Values of Catholic Faith ); of paralysis; in Edinburgh...
...housekeeper"; whiskey and Nancy became his crutches. Then Son Matt came whining home from India, hung around the house till one fine day he and Nancy went off to South America. Brodie leaned more heavily on the bottle, pinned all his hopes on Nessie's winning the Latta. But somebody else won it. When Nessie got the news she hanged herself in the kitchen. Brodie was left alone in his desolate house, with his old hag of a mother, his pride, that would not bend, broken. What the Greeks called hybris (insolence) had done...