Word: marvellous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Josiah Marvel, 64, leading attorney of Wilmington, Del, president of the American Bar Association, unsuccessful candidate last month for Democratic nomination for the Senate; suddenly, of heart failure, at his home in Greenville...
Detroit Catholics went to marvel at the dedication of a church architecturally unique in the land last week, the new French Romanesque St. Aloysius on downtown Detroit's famed Washington Boulevard ("most brilliantly lighted street in the world"). Unique feature: the seating arrangement. Old St. Aloysius, built in 1861,* torn down last spring, seated only 728 worshipers. On the same site, new St. Aloysius accommodates...
Four scholarship holders have been named in the Harvard Law School; three for the Sidney Thompson Fairchild Scholarships, a fourth for the Reuben B. Hutchcraft Memorial Scholarship. The holders are Nathan Davis, of Arlington, New Jersey; Joseph V. Crockett, Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee; and William M. Marvel '30, of West Medford, for the Fairchild Scholarships; and Maurice Abrams, of Providence, Rhode Island, for the Hutchcraft Scholarship...
...upstate. There were socialites and would-be socialites, gowns gaudy and sedate. There was the usual minority of the musically appreciative. But one faction peculiar to Los Angeles was furnished by the film people. Some of them attended the opening of Boheme, but a far greater number waited to marvel at Hope Hampton in Massenet's Manon. In San Francisco she had sung it so badly that Opera directors there were accused of selling her the engagement. It was emphatically denied but criticism stayed bitter, and cinemactors were not surprised for Hope Hampton, not long ago, was just...
Delaware. Democrats at Dover by a vote of 115 to 95 nominated Thomas < Francis Bayard, Wet, for the Senate over Josiah Marvel, new president of the American Bar Association (TIME, Sept.1). Nominee Bayard's father, Thomas Francis Bayard Sr., his grandfather James Asheton Bayard Jr. and his greatgrand-father James Asheton Bayard Sr. all at different times represented Delaware in the Senate. So did Nominee Bayard (1923-29). His Republican opponent: Dry Senator Daniel O. Hastings. Delaware's single Democratic Congressional nominee: John P. Le Fevre...