Word: marvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important appointments, the 22 newshawks covering President-elect Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. last week got their first definite preview of the next administration. After March 4, they were told, the White House secretariat would be composed of three onetime reporters-Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Stephen T. Early and Marvin Hunter McIntyre. The next President is determined to get a better "press" than his predecessor. White House secretaries, buffers between the President and the public, have the power to set an administration's tone with the Washington correspondents, who largely help make or break their Chief...
...Sheldon, Mo., Mrs. Marvin Garrett drew 1,000 gal. of gasoline from her water well, found that it had leaked from a filling station tank down the street...
Four are deans: at Rutgers, Walter Taylor Marvin; at Princeton, Christian Gauss, Augustus Trowbridge, Luther Pfahler Eisenhart. Three became headmasters: Emerson Boyd Morrow of Gilman, Louis Wardlaw Miles whom he succeeded, and Charles Hodge Jones of Silver Bay School (New York). Department heads at Princeton are Roger Bruce Cash Johnson (philosophy), Edward Samuel Corwin (politics), Duane Reed Stuart (classics), Robert Kilburn Root (English), Charles Rufus Morey (art & archaeology), Henry Norris Russell (astronomy), Charles Grosvenor Osgood Jr. (formerly English). Department heads elsewhere: Ernest Ludlow Bogart (economics, University of Illinois), George Dwight Kellogg (classics, Union University), Gilbert Ames Bliss (mathematics, University...
...score was 7-6 in the ninth inning, with none out. Woody Jenson of the Newark Bears stood with one foot on third base rubbing a knee he had skinned sliding in. At bat was Third Baseman Marvin Owen, whose home run four days earlier had started the International League Bears on their victorious way for the Little World Series against the Minneapolis Millers, American Association pennant winners. Another home run now by Baseman Owen, in the Millers' home park, would put the Bears ahead, give them the series, four games to two. Owen watched one ball...
...York and California. Last week arose a great hue & cry, led by Dr. John Henry MacCracken, associate director of the American Council on Education, U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University, President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan, President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington (Washington, D. C.) and President Nicholas Murray Butler of polyglot Columbia, who cried, "Reactionary and stupid...