Word: missourians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned out, sole witness to support garrulous, bespectacled, aging Mr. Mitchell's grave charges was Mr. Mitchell. A small-town lawyer from Springfield, Mo., he became "the original Roosevelt man in Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister...
...curiously skeptical editorial. . . . It "humbly suggests" that the Princetonian adduce facts and figures to establish its contention that a general decline of interest in extra-curricular activities marks the Princeton Campus today. "Has the Princetonian made a thorough survey?" asks the Weekly (which has a "trace of the Missourian" in its make-up). If not, let its candidates set to work compiling statistics on competitions and squad turn-outs for the last five years in order that it may speak with authority...
...third, a six on the fourth, and then made three birdies in succession to keep in the running. Jones had 71, Walter Hagen, back from a tour of Japan and needing practice, had 72 and so did blond, loose-jointed Horton Smith. 21-year-old Missourian whose effortless, powerful swing is stylistically better than any but that of Jones...