Word: marvin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clock: J. O. Proctor defeated P. M. Sturgis, Frederick Taussig defeated W. P. Haskel, H. A. Hoffman defeated G. T. Skinner, R. M. Ballon defeated Marvin Williams, J. F. Knowles defeated R. B. Miller, S. L. Olinick defeated R. G. Claflin, B. D. Davis defeated W. R. O'Brien, G. H. Collins defeated C. B. Sears, W. S. Picher defeated R. W. Harper...
Between swims at the pool the President-elect shut himself up with visitors for long hours in his study. Starved for facts, newsmen had to content themselves with writing long-winded speculative pieces, often based on nothing more authoritative than a casual aside by Marvin Mclntyre. Mr. Roosevelt's press contact man. The three most important callers upon the President-elect during the week...
Critics of H. R. 13,991 had the upper hand during the House debate. Its friends, armed with votes, made no spirited defense, beyond the hopeful prediction that it would somehow up commodity prices. Texas' Marvin Jones, chairman of the Agriculture Committee whose measure it was, warded off attacks with this query: "If you don't favor this, what form of farm relief do you favor?"-and no good answers were forthcoming. Of the lack of enthusiasm behind H. R. 13,991 he cried: "Did you ever see any enthusiasm in a sick room? Did you ever watch...
...Board in 1931, Voluntary Domestic Allotment is to become in 1933-the phrase-of-the-moment on farm relief. Unlike the Fee and the Debenture, it will probably become reality. Whether it will work better than Price Stabilization is the pudding President-elect Roosevelt must prove. Last week Chairman Marvin Jones called his House Committee on Agriculture together to start hearings on his Domestic Allotment bill. Thirty-seven representatives of the National Grange, the Farm Bureau Federation, the National Farmers' Union and 33 other farm organizations, after a three-day Washington meeting, united solidly for Domestic Allotment. President-elect...
Most newsworthy of last week's doings among football coaches was the resignation of Yale's Dr. Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens, head coach since 1928. He transferred to Yale from Washburn College (Kans.) in 1922, played halfback on the Yale team in 1923. When a new rule made him ineligible the next year he became an assistant coach. Record of Yale teams under Coach Stevens: won 21, lost n, tied 8. The 1932 record: won 2, lost 2, tied 3. His ostensible reason for retiring: to devote more time to surgery...