Word: mcelroy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reed has a normal annual football budget of about $100, charges nothing for admission to games. This fall, having decided that Reed football was becoming too dangerous, Mr. Keezer blew in $300 for shoulder pads, pants, etc. For the fun of it, two young facultymen-Biology Teacher William ("Bill") McElroy, lately a varsity end at Stanford, and Alfred ("Fritz") Hubbard, onetime Carnegie Fellow at Princeton-offered to coach. Result was an unusually big turnout for the team: 30 (including two Japanese) of Reed's 546 students. Except on rainy days (when less than a full team showed up), they...
Bryce-Byram Smith, as Mayor, up to last week was a powerless dummy. Such authority as Boss Tom did not wield for himself was vested (since 1926) in rich, famed City Manager Henry F. McElroy and in the City Council. Last week Mayor Smith suddenly announced that for the good of Kansas City, he was taking unto himself the powers placed in Henry McElroy by the city charter...
Seventy-three-year-old Mr. McElroy, whose honesty had not been questioned up to last week, first balked, then glumly removed the official insignia and siren from his car and resigned. This shocked Kansas City as thoroughly as did the 1933 kidnapping of his daughter, Mary, for whom he had to pay $30,000 ransom. When he was renominated last year, he started to "accept" before the council had actually elected him, set Mary to laughing (see cut). Last week he tried to laugh off his unfunny predicament by telling an inquiring reporter how the McElroy lawn was doing. Boss...
Indignant Secretary Stuart McElroy of the Baltimore Model Yacht Club then began writing to the papers, explaining that the model yacht basin would cost at least three-quarters of the $40,000. Demanded Mr. McElroy: "Whether the $10,000 polo field is a worthy project or not remains to be seen, but who can dispute the worthiness of a model yacht basin...
Throughout the day historic rites will be observed, linking the University with its beginnings 300 years ago. These picturesque affairs will include the opening of the morning exericses by High Sheriff McElroy of Middlesex County; the seating of the president in an ancient Tudor chair, and many others...