Word: meier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last year a similar deal was effected in Brooklyn when John H. McCooey Jr., younjj son of the local Democratic boss was approved by Republicans for the Supreme Court in return for Democratic approval of Meier Steinbrink, local G. O. P. boss, for the same bench...
...pass through Multnomah Stadium. In the reviewing stand under heavy guard were Secretary of War Hurley who yelled "Yah-hoo!" when the Oklahoma delegation filed by, onetime Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Veterans' Administrator Hines, Admiral Leigh, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, Oregon's Governor Meier and Portland's celebrated, bushy-browed Mayor Baker. In the line of march were clowns, drum-&-bugle corps, an automobile that had crossed the continent with the Bonus Expeditionary Force, a cage full of pretty girls on a truck, a French box car, lowans armed with ears of corn, cowboys from...
...Smithsonian Institution Dr. Florence E. Meier fired ultraviolet light waves of various lengths at green, one-celled plants called algae. The algae succumbed to waves which were almost as short as x-rays...
...judgeships in the strongly Democratic Second Judicial district. Two months ago nominations were made by both parties. Interesting facts about the nominations were: 1) Five Republicans and seven Democrats were nominated; 2) the Republicans endorsed the Democratic nominees and the Democrats approved the Republican choices; 3) one nominee was Meier Steinbrink, who was Republican leader of Brooklyn when the bill was passed; 4) another nominee was 32-year- old John H. McCooey Jr. Newspapers immediately denounced a "deal." Inquisitor Seabury said he would discover how it came about...
...morning three weeks ago, milk wagon drivers and early risers in Portland, Ore. saw a huge dark marine shape diving about in Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. "Sportsmen" started shooting at it until Governor Julius L. Meier issued orders against it. By the end of a week the creature had been identified as a small killer whale which had wandered 100 mi. up from the sea. Press & populace named it Ethelbert. The Oregon Humane Society decided Ethelbert would never get back to sea, should be painlessly destroyed by dynamite. Before the dynamiting could...