Word: leavitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business is news, not policies, politeness or protection of public characters. When the sister of the President of the United States writes an article about her brother. TIME'S duty lies clear before it. But what did Mrs. Payne find that was disgraceful in Mary Hoover Leavitt's article? It was evidently considered entirely commendable by President Hoover's good friend Harry Chandler, who published it first in his Los Angeles Times.-ED. Marxian Depravity...
...Last year President Hoover was embarrassed when Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt, his brother-in-law, was arrested in Santa Monica for liquor possession. Mr. Leavitt was later acquitted in court (TIME. Nov. 23, Dec. 14). What the President's feelings were could only be guessed last week when he read an article in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine by his sister, Mary Hoover Leavitt. Excerpts from "My Brother, the President": "The last time I saw him was more than three years ago at the inauguration. . . . My brother and I spent a last half-hour together. We had to talk...
Resident Fellowships; Museum of Comparative Zoology: Virginia Barrett Gibbs Scholarship: B. B. Leavitt, Brookline, Mass.; Anna C. Ames Memorial Scholarship: John Enrlich, New York City; George H. Emerson Scholarships: D. M. Bates, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; C. H. Burgess, Sheridan, Wyoming; J. H. Moses, Pleasantville, N. Y.; C. D. West, Glens Falls, N. Y.; Charles Haven Goodwin Scholarship: C. T. Murphy, Athens, Greece; Forris Jewett Moore Scholarship: R. G. Kennelly, Cambridge, Mass.; James Mills Peirce Scholarship: D. H. Ballou, Chester, Vermont; Edward Russell Scholarship: C. P. Adams, Huntington, Oregon; Ralph Sanger Scholarships: A. F. Bixby, Lakewood, Ohio; N. F. Conant, Wakefield...
Died. Charles Leavitt Edgar, 71, general manager (since 1890) and president (since 1900) of Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, onetime president of the National Electric Light Association; of pneumonia; in Atlantic City...
...Father-in-Law Webb befriended Brother-in-Law Leavitt when the President's sister's husband was arrested for liquor possession last year (TIME...