Word: marvinism
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...managed to get tickets. Mrs. Roosevelt was there with her knitting (on which she did not work) and Ambassador Josephus Daniels. Then Franklin Roosevelt marched in and up the special gangway to the rostrum. In the hush that followed the outburst of applause, the ice tinkled out as Secretary Marvin McIntyre poured his chief a glass of water. Laying his glasses on the lectern, President Roosevelt, unsmiling, began to read his message, a thorough, unequivocal rebuttal to the advocates of bonus and greenbacks...
Married. Sosthenes Behn II, son of the late President Harnand Behn of International Telephone & Telegraph Co., nephew and namesake of its present president; and Camilla Marvin, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
...Haven, April 12 Though skeptical as to present financial conditions, Dr. Marvin A. (Mal) Stevens, former Yale head coach, frankly believes Harvard's plan "would be ideal at Yale." As quoted in the Yale News, Dr. Stevens, always an advocate of some means of underwriting Eli sports, declared Harvard's move "would once and for all eliminate the strictly business attitude which, of necessity, has come to influence Yale athletic policy in recent years...
...managing the Press. Last week he succeeded even further when he became his own press. Arriving in Jacksonville overnight from Washington he boarded the Farragut, one of the Navy's newest and finest destroyers, which whisked him off at a 35-knot clip to the Bahamas. His secretary, Marvin Mclntyre, his Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and his bevy of newshawks proceeded on by rail to Miami. For the rest of the week the only news accounts of Franklin Roosevelt were those he wrote and wirelessed back...
...head of that office-Senator Long's Marvin Mclntyre, "Steve" Early and James Aloysius Farley rolled into one-is Earle J. Christenberry. Secretary Christenberry works on a yearly contract, holds Mr. Long's power of attorney, pays his bills, looks after his $55,000 life insurance. Fourteen years ago Mr. Christenberry claimed the world's record in stenography, later ran a public stenographic service in New Orleans. He got his job early one morning when Huey Long called him up and dictated a long letter over the telephone. Nowadays he works Sundays, nights and holidays. He sees...