Word: marvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fault of Senator Alben William Barkley that Marvin College, once the pride of Clinton, Ky., no longer exists. In the late nineties, long before he became the new democratic leader of the Senate. Alben went out once a week to "do or die" on Marvin's football field. His muscles had been hardened on his father's Kentucky tobacco farm. It is said that when Alben Barkley came down the field, everyone got out of his way. But he could forgive his enemies while demolishing them, for he never missed prayer meetings at Marvin College...
Young Barkley was a forerunner of the youths who work their way through college taking magazine subscriptions. He sold kitchenware from house to house. The best senior honor at Marvin was the Declamation Prize. Senior Barkley won that. He remembers that for a long time afterward no function was considered complete unless he delivered his recitation...
Quoted on the mayoralty stand and also in behalf of Dewey, nominee for District Attorney of New York County, was Langdon P. Marvin '98, chairman of the Harvard alumni division of the University Alumni Committee for Fusion...
...Besides Marvin other members of the Harvard alumni committee supporting Fusion include Curt E. Hansen '12, William M. Chadbourne '00, and Barklie M. Henry...
...hundred or so neighbors were on hand to see him off. Aboard were WPAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins, who usually falls asleep as soon as he gets on a boat; Naval Aide Paul Bastedo; Physician Ross McIntyre; and Son James Roosevelt who, with Steve Early in Washington and Marvin Mclntyre on vacation, was getting his first taste of single-handed duty as one of his father's secretarial triumvirate...