Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House offices were cleaned and painted for his successor. Because of the President-elect's lameness, short ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor hall leading to the Lincoln Study. Also under consideration was the construction of a small warm-water swimming pool in the White House basement, similar to the one Mr. Roosevelt had in the Executive Mansion conservatory at Albany, where he took regular underwater leg exercises between trips to Warm Springs. ¶ In December 1929, President...
...these actresses and singers to cancel scheduled performances: Eva Le Gallienne, Judith Anderson, Alice Brady, Lily Pons, Mary Garden, Also ill last week lay: President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in Prague and Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick in Manhattan, both with influenza ; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan, of coronary artery disease, in Lincoln, Neb.; Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel, after an abdominal operation, in Manhattan...
...there had been few changes in 1932. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. still spoke for General Motors; Walter P. Chrysler for Chrysler; Alvan Macauley for Packard (and as president of Automobile Chamber of Commerce, for the Industry) ; Albert Russel Erskine for Studebaker. Henry Ford still spoke for Lincoln: his Ford is not a member of the show. Notable among the changes had been the departure of Roy Dikeman Chapin, to be U. S. Secretary of Commerce, leaving William Joseph Mc-Aneeny active leader of Hudson.* The Industry's first U. S. Ambassador, John North Willys, who wisely sold his common...
...credo of "change" supplemented by a belief that nothing can be taken for granted, that "A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere with progressive things." He is a tall lank man who has been found to resemble both Ichabod Crane and Abraham Lincoln. He is Charles Franklin Kettering, vice president of General Motors Corp. He invented the self-starter,* and Delco ignition and farm-lighting units,† fathered Ethyl gasoline** and Duco.‡ Since he contrived the self-starter, he has far transcended tinkering gadgets. He is GM's visionary magician, perched...
...summary of the McGill game: McGILL HARVARD McGill, Robertson, l.w. r.w., Saltonstall, Lincoln Farquharson, N. Crutchfield, c. c., Baldwin, Putnam, Hasler G. Crutchfield, Farmer, r.w. l.w., Pell, Pruyn Shaughnessy, l.d. r.d., Watts, Beale Meiklejohn, r.d. l.d., Martin Powers, g. g., deGive...