Word: loree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realized that for legal lore, for private integrity and public highmindedness, President Roosevelt could not duplicate Senator WTalsh as an Attorney General. Nor did Mr. Roosevelt at first try. He appointed Connecticut's Homer Stille Cummings, 62, only as a stopgap, to have a full Cabinet slate at the inaugural. A Yaleman (1891), Mr. Cummings began his legal career in populous, wealthy Fairfield County, served three terms as Mayor of Stamford, today lives in Greenwich. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), broad-shouldered, partly bald, he first came into national view as chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...House lore, there is somewhat more than spirit. The present President of the United States is said to have lived in Westmorly during part of his undergraduate stay. Ann Pennington is reputed to have been entertained in the swimming pool with many of her beautifully-limbed compatriots, and the various versions of this rumor are both exciting and legion. Then too there is the good-will bestowed upon the House by the no longer existing Adams House of Boston, a hostel long famous for its good cheer, the deed for which is in the House archives. Besides these more...
FRESHMEN ARLINGTON Callaway, r.w. l.w., Norberg Moseley, c. c., Bullock Dewey, l.w. r.w., Mee Claflin, r.d. l.d., Cannell Lane, l.d. r.d., Lore Waldinger, g. g., Sakoigz...
William Paterson (1658-1719) was a Scotsman who early removed to the Bahamas. In the Bahamas he preached to the planters' servants, learned from pirates the lore of the Spanish Main, conceived a scheme. The southern reaches of the Isthmus of Panama were known as Darien. From a peak in Darien Balboa first saw the Pacific. Soon the Spaniards were transporting their Inca loot across the Isthmus...
...Witnesses brought the Committee up to date on Kreuger history but were unable to shake Senator Reynolds's firm belief in the No. 1 Kreuger legend: that Ivar Kreuger's death was as false as his life. Lesser legends added recently to the great book of Kreuger lore...