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Word: lewiston (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as the Shriners began to assemble once again in Washington matters were different. Secretary Early turned down a request to have Imperial Potentate Dana S. Williams, of Lewiston, Me., ride up to the White House on a camel to be received by the President. Only the vanguard of potentates caught Shriner Franklin D. Roosevelt (Cypress Temple, Albany, N. Y.) at his desk, induced him to put on an honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Escape from Arabs | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Herbert Sprince, 1G., of Lewiston, Me.--appointed assistant in Biology for one year from Sept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPOINTMENT OF EIGHT NEW MEN IS ANNOUNCED | 4/9/1935 | See Source »

...notice in your issue of March 5 an item with reference to the Patman bill for the payment of soldiers' bonus. With reference to the 145th signature on the petition, you state: ''A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-Ib. Congressman from Lewiston, Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew who he was." Apparently, also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...proposed that she take the credit of being the 145th. She pounded a small determined fist on the arm of her chair, said, no, she would not do it for any amount of publicity. A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-lb. Congressman from Lewiston. Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Generosity v. Generosity | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...backfield are on the schedule for the Wildcat--last week it was the Bobcats--tilt. The one thing that everyone will be watching today is the ability of the Crimson outfit to gain consistently through the line. It seemed to us that the lightness of Bates' backs held the Lewiston outfit to a small yardage more than the play of the Harvard linemen. The little fellows were stopped by sheer weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

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