Word: maccracken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official Storekeeper. Sergeant Jurney wore grey striped trousers, a cutaway, a black 10-gal. hat, a heavy overcoat with a red handkerchief hanging out of its pocket. He carried a document signed by Vice President Garner directing him to "take into custody the body of the said William P. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate." A few minutes later in an office in the National Press Building, Mr. MacCracken held out his hand exclaiming: "Hello, Mr. Jurney...
Then both posed for photographs and Mr. Jurney read the notice of arrest. Being somewhat embarrassed by Mr. MacCracken's body, since the Senate had no jail of its own, Mr. Jurney gladly paroled it in the custody of Mr. Mac-Cracken's attorney, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Oilman Edward L. Doheny...
...merits, but at the Vassar College Experimental Theatre at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Translated by two Vassar seniors and their Professor Nikander Sterlsky, Fear was acted by a cast recruited from students and faculty. Ivan Ilich Borodin was Vassar's own bald-headed president. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken-an experienced amateur actor, who entertains his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day and two years ago performed as Theseus in Euripides' Hippolytns. Professor Sterlsky played the part of a Cossack. Fear has two main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin's efforts to deal with his political...
...Baruch, Thomas William Lament and Owen D. Young. Last week the banded seven sent their presidents West, to dine in St. Louis with friends and alumnae. They went in a distinguished phalanx-Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Marion Edwards Park, Mary Emma Woolley, Ada Louise Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner speaker they produced Pundit Walter Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann, whose wife Faye Albertson went to Boston University, exclaimed he was "almost ashamed" to be obliged to defend higher education for women, which he called a "rather decent overcoming of a primitive feeling...
President Henry Noble MacCracken...