Word: marvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marvin Mclntyre, the President's secretary, wanted the job but was too intimate with shipping lobbyists. Finally the President turned to his most effective and trusted extra-Cabinet friend, red-headed Joe Kennedy. Every night for two weeks a White House limousine met Joe Kennedy as he landed from Manhattan at the Washington Airport, whisked him off to be cajoled by that persuasive pleader, Franklin Roosevelt. As a final objection to being given the job, reluctant Joe Kennedy revealed that he has 1,100 shares of Todd Shipbuilding Corp. stock. Would not that prevent his choice? The President...
...Marvin Swanson of Minneapolis: His third successive senior men's national amateur speed skating championship; at Petoskey, Mich...
...drove to the Capitol to start his mopping up. At the side door of the House wing, he shed his silk topper, his dark overcoat and revealed himself in his new uniform, a handsome ash-grey cutaway with trousers to match. The White House secretariat-Son James, Stephen Early, Marvin Mclntyre-racked their toppers in a row on the trunk behind the Presidential tonneau. and the official party entered the Capitol...
...East Orange, Vt., New Year's Eve celebrants stripped Marvin Follansbee, 27, cut off his hair, painted him with red and yellow stripes. Next morning the coroner did not know whether Follansbee's death was caused by the alcohol in his brain or the paint in his pores...
...Secretary Marvin Mclntyre secured the services of Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, who served in the same capacity in 1933, to act as Chairman of the Inaugural Committee, and Mrs. Roosevelt announced that for the inauguration she would undoubtedly wear her black broadtail. Said she: "I have had the coat three years, but it is perfectly good and I expect to wear it a good many years after this. I should not dream of getting...