Word: marvinism
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Weatherman Gregg's predecessor is Charles Frederick Marvin, a softspoken, bushy-browed old gentleman of 75 whose great hobby was the 13-month calendar, whose special aversion is long-range forecasting. He will be retained in an advisory capacity until he completes 50 years of service (end of this year...
President of the Harvard Alumni Association, Walter Lippmann '10, an Overseer of Harvard College, and Grenville Clark '03, Fellow of Harvard College, are to speak at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York, which occurs tomorrow night, it was announced yesterday by Langden P. Marvin '98, President of the Club, who will preside at the dinner...
...Much of the material ... is deemed necessary to good business on the theory that our readers demand fiddle-faddle about Broadway after dark, Hollywood before daylight, Paris after absinthe, and Washington from the backstairs." The other writer was the Society of Newspaper Editors' second vice president, Managing Editor Marvin H. Creager of the Milwaukee Journal. What irritated him most was not Washington from the back stairs but Washington from the official front steps: "Another member of President Roosevelt's 'brain trust' [Rexford Guy Tugwell] has entered the journalistic field and is offering, through a syndicate...
...Chase '96, was elected president for the coming year, while L. P. Marvin '98, will be Vice-President. Williard Reed '91, and Crane Brinton '19, were elected Chief Marshal and Corresponding Secretary respectively...
...night last week NBC got the White House Portico Quartet to sing "Home on the Range'' over a network. The quartet: Roosevelt Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, United Press's Fred Storm, Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger, Universal Service's Edward Roddan.* President Roosevelt interrupted a White House conference on the National Recovery Act to listen in. When the singers finished, the President telephoned the broadcasting studio. Disguising his voice he got the quartet leader on the wire. Approximately the following dialog then took place...