Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week that in 1934 he had been commissioned by one P. D. Pina Chevalier, an uncle of President Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic, to design a $20,000 all-mahogany schooner as a Dominican gift to Franklin Roosevelt. Captain McCoy said the designs were all finished, approved by Mr. Roosevelt, and he was only waiting for suitable mahogany to be found to go to the Dominican Republic and supervise construction. Great was bluff Capt. McCoy's embarrassment when, at week's end, Uncle P. D. Pina Chevalier announced that the gift schooner story was "without any foundation...
...officials of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped him. In October he drove up to Washington, following a barrage of telegrams and letters, and made life miserable for White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre until three weeks later, having industriously backed Mr. Roosevelt into a corner, he received word from Mclntyre that the President would really come. Voit Gilmore then had to rush around raising $350 expense money. He told his hard-working mother (whom he calls "Bimble") that he felt as though he had "landed a whale on a trout hook...
...executive wing of TNEC has a preconceived case to prove and to act upon with legislation many months hence, this is it: that large concentrations of corporate wealth and productive capacity have, in various industries, anti-social powers which must be curbed by the Federal power. But after Mr. Henderson and the Janizariat and the President started out to prove that case, in stepped Senator O'Mahoney. He it was who, by nimble action on the President's message, preserved for Congress a half-interest in the investigation, and became its chairman. And since he did that...
Last week a group in Claverly with difficulty organized a basketball team, reputedly obtaining the support of thirty men. With more difficulty they wormed a way into the intramural system, although their success was qualified by the refusal to place them as the ninth team in the league. Mr. Samborski pointed out that his tight, House athletic budget could not care for an additional manager, so that Claverly's team would be able to practice only...
Sever plays the part of Mr. Puff, a playwright; Palmer Baker '39 and Vernon Hodges '34 are cast as Mr. Sneer and Mr. Dangle, critics who accompany Puff to the dress rehearsal of his Elizabethan verse tragedy called "The Spanish Armada." Miss Spencer is Tilburina, the English heroine of the play under rehearsal, and John Barnard '39 is her faithful Spanish lover, Don Whiskerandes...