Word: marylanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening in the Methodist Building, directly across Maryland Avenue from the Supreme Court, directly across the plaza from the Capitol. His colored chauffer, going off duty, knocked at the door of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson's apartment. Mrs. Robinson was home in Little Rock and the Senator was sitting alone. Would the Senator like him to stay around, he inquired. No, no, the Senator was quite all right. He didn't need anybody to stay with...
...ablest, most experienced members of the Democratic ranks. They included many who had been expected to find reason for swinging back to the Administration's side on the compromise bill, such as Connally of Texas, Bankhead of Alabama, the President's personal friend, Radcliffe of Maryland. Although many of the opposition undoubtedly hoped to use the Court bill as a means of inflicting a defeat on Franklin Roosevelt, among such men as these, charges of personal animus only helped to create bitterness. Whether or not that bitterness would be effective in defeating the bill, it was of first...
...reign of President Woodcock, St. John's was removed from the accredited list of the Middle States Association of Colleges for graduating in 1935 a student who had failed to pass his final examinations. Writing this year in the Baltimore Sun on the history of the University of Maryland, of which St. John's was a part from 1907 to 1920, tart Tax payer Henry Louis Mencken thought the most impressive fact about St. John's was that it "receives $67,000 a year from the State, and every student on its roll costs the taxpayer...
While Waukegan's marrying parsons lamented last week, the wedding racketeers of Elkton, Md. gloated. Led by Elkton's famed Marriage-Parlorist William ("Pop") Cann, Maryland's taxi-drivers had beaten a June 30 deadline on a new Maryland marriage law. Although this law, requiring a 48-hr. interim between applying for a license and being wed, took effect June 1, Maryland's Constitution permits the lifting and postponement of its laws by public petition within 30 days. The law is then submitted to popular referendum at the next election of U. S. Representatives.*Maryland taximen...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Maryland's Governor Harry Whinna Nice planned to enter a Manhattan hospital for an operation to remove his right eye, injured in a fall three years...