Word: mcnab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With an oratorical toss of the head, the tall, ministerial figure stepped back from the lectern like one whose duty is, for the moment, done. That was John L. McNab's idea of how to introduce his Palo Alto, Calif., neighbor to the country...
...radio he had had installed to be sure of getting Kansas City clearly. At his home was another receiving set. He had worked all over the world at a man's work; given orders, reasoned objectively, sought no praise. Yet there he sat, listening for his friend, John McNab of Palo Alto, to make a speech about him; then for thunderous cheers, roll-calls of delegates, a flattering result...
...Norma Talmadge's husband will be there too-fleshy Joseph M. Schenck, the cinema producer (United Artists). He is a Hooverite from California. Another California Hooverite, Lawyer John L. McNab of San Francisco, has been chosen to stand up and nominate Candidate Hoover...
Died. Gavin McNab, 58, onetime hotel clerk, then lawyer, prominent Democratic leader of California, legal adviser to Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, Jack Dempsey, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, Mary Pickford; suddenly, in San Francisco...
from John Dunsmure McNab, her husband. Mrs. MacNab said she stuck to Mr. MacNab even when he struck her, called her "Tough Mag," "Tough Liz." When he called her "Shanty Irish," she pawned her jewels, left him, brought action, charged "cruelty...