Word: mcleans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History to Walter D. Brown, of Washington, D.C.; Special Fellowship in the Graduated School of Education to Hope Fisher, of Princeton; Buckley Scholarship to Martin Ritvo, of Dorchester, for study in the Law School; Downer Scholarship to Edward C. Woods, 2Dn., of Rutland, Vermont; Lincoln Scholarship to Richard A. McLean, 2G., of Lincoln; Lydig Scholarship to Jefferson G. Artz, 1G., of Vicksburg, Mississipi; Parlin Scholarship to Irving L. Pavlo, 2M., of Malden; and Vaughn Scholarship to Theodore P. Robie, of New York City, for study at the Medical School...
Married. Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean Jr., 19, second son of bizarre Washington Socialite Evalyn L. Walsh McLean; and Ann Carroll Meem, 19, daughter of Washington Banker Henry Grant Meem; in Washington. Best man was Brother John R. McLean II, who married Agnes Pyne Bacon in Reno last April...
...conservative publisher of the enormously wealthy, faintly stodgy Washington Star as A. P.'s supervising chief, A. P. directors this week chose the middleaged, conservative publisher of the enormously wealthy, faintly stodgy Philadelphia Bulletin. To the 35,000,000 readers of A. P. dispatches, retiring, even-tempered Robert McLean's election will mean nothing. Like his predecessor, President McLean, steeped in A. P. tradition, will be inclined to go along with any changes proposed by A. P.'s General Manager and executive boss, crisp Kent Cooper. But few shifts in A. P. setup or policies will...
...family which had been pawnbroking in England for five generations. One William Simpson or another has lent money to Steve Brodie, Boss Tweed, Commodore Vanderbilt and Tony Pastor. John L. Sullivan used to hock his diamond-studded championship belt at Simpson's for $400. Evalyn Walsh McLean pawned her Hope Diamond there to get the $100,000 Gaston Means swindled from her as ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The present William Simpson, much harassed by squabbles in the business, recently got a new slant from the play You Can't Take It With You. Last week William...
While State offices were being set up, many a veteran Greenwich Villager hotfooted it to Washington, started work in the gaudy Evelyn Walsh McLean mansion, where the Project's temporary offices were established. Although administrative work was handled by professionals like Alsberg's assistant, Reed Harris, or his chief editor, Biographer Edward Barrows (Great Commodore), or Architect Roderick Seidenberg, who designed The New Yorker Hotel, the detail work was done by a mazy mass of unemployed newspapermen, poets, graduates of schools of journalism who had never had jobs, authors of unpublished novels, high-school teachers, people...