Word: marvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: Scion of a family of North Carolina dirt farmers who after the Civil War crossed the mountains to western Kentucky, he picked up a public school education between hours of field work, went to Marvin College at Clinton. Ambitious, he studied law at Emory in Georgia, and later at the University of Virginia. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1901, he was taken into the Paducah law office of Judge W. S. Bishop, prototype of Irvin Cobb's ''Judge Priest." In 1905, after a muleback campaign, he was elected county prosecutor. Four years later he successfully...
...Rolland Marvin, Mayor of Syracuse...
...Mayor Marvin of Syracuse is an ambitious young politician who made a name for himself by his methods of municipal relief and economy. Speaker McGinnies and Senator Fearon are old party wheelhorses, hard-boiled and practical, angling for the nomination behind the scenes without public declarations of purpose. Onetime Governor Miller, now general counsel for U. S. Steel, was brought forth as a powerful figure to hold the situation open until the bosses could make up their minds what...
...Chicago, overheated Karl Marvin tried to cool himself with ice. The trickle down his neck was uncomfortable. He tried it with dry ice (solid CO2), froze both his ears...
...aggressive, hard-bitten Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, which has spent itself almost to the brink of bankruptcy supporting its needy.* On hand among the 20 Democrats, four Republicans, one Socialist and one Farmer-Laborite, were New York's Walker, Boston's Curley, Richmond's Bright, Syracuse's Marvin, New Orleans' Walmsley, Miami's Gautier, Milwaukee's Hoan, Cleveland's Miller, Denver's Begole, Minneapolis' Anderson, Akron's Sparks and Toledo's Thatcher...