Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known to history, Virginia Dare was last week given her 343rd birthday party. At Manteo*; (pop. 394) on Roanoke Island in the sound waters of North Carolina was dedicated a memorial gateway composed of two large pillars, one to Virginia Dare, the other to Manteo, friendly Indian. Miss Mabel Evans accepted the gateway from the U. S. in behalf of the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association. Archibald Henderson, head of the University of North Carolina's mathematics department, spoke of "America's debt of lasting gratitude to the great Raleigh, promulgator of the English colonization movement...
...Denver last week convened the International Association of Lions' Clubs. No. 1 speaker: Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney-General. Said...
Directly in charge of Dry work under Enforcer-in-Chief Mitchell, was Assistant Attorney General Gustav Aaron Young-quist (successor to famed Mabel Walker Willebrandt). When he came into office last year from the attorney generalship of Minnesota, this quiet, practical, tight-mouthed man declared: "I'm a Dry but not a fanatic." Responsible for actual Dry enforcement under Assistant Attorney General Youngquist was Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, appointed director of Prohibition fortnight...
Into the capacious lap of Yale ("Mother of Men") fell yet another rich gift last week. In honor of his wife Mabel, sister of the late Papal Marquis Nicholas Frederic Brady, and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary, onetime alien property custodian (now chemical tycoon) Francis Patrick Garvan presented to the university his enormously valuable collection of early Americana-furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, prints-to be known as the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections. He also set up a Mabel Brady Garvan foundation to take care of them...
...this Garvan gift. The various articles will not be assembled in one group at New Haven, but will remain where they are now, scattered loans in colleges, museums and restored colonial mansions. Yale's duty will be to keep track and care of them, to keep the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections circulating throughout the land where they may be seen by the greatest numbers of people. Wrote Donor Garvan...