Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential special. Instead, from California, he telegraphed his regret that he could not be on hand to welcome the President to his State. At Fort Peck, largest earth dam in the world as Grand Coulee is the largest concrete-the President amiably gave credit to Senator James E. Murray and Representative James F. O'Connor and Jerry J. O'Connell for helping to develop Montana's water-resources, but Senator Wheeler was not mentioned...
...late, great Jane Addams shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with the eminent Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Moreover, Theodore Roosevelt once called her "America's most useful citizen." But down to the end of her long life in 1935 Jane Addams was never so proud of anything as she was of Hull House, the lively, sprawling Chicago settlement which she founded in 1889, where she worked until her death. When Miss Addams, an erect, brown-haired young lady of 29, first appeared with her equally lady-like friend, Ellen Gates Starr, in the big red-brick house that Lawyer...
...teaching-legal duties had worn him to a frazzle and he returned to Yakima to practice. After ten days he changed his mind, hustled back to Manhattan to teach full time at Columbia. A year later he idealistically resigned because President Nicholas Murray Butler appointed a new dean of the Law School without first consulting the faculty. Shortly afterwards at a party in Pelham he met famed Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins of Yale Law School. Next day Hutchins telephoned from New Haven, hired Bill Douglas to teach law at Yale. There he was director of bankruptcy studies, collaborated with...
REMEMBERING LAUGHTER-Wallace Stegner A CARGO OF PARROTS- R. Hernekin Baptist LOVING MEMORY-James Hill THIS MAN, JOE MURRAY...
Representing the contemporary U. S. scene are William Corcoran's This Man, Joe Murray and Theodore Strauss's Night at Hogwallow. Both books and authors have working-class backgrounds. Tough, popular, sentimental hero of This Man, Joe Murray falls hard for a beautiful, chaste Polish girl, blames himself when she is run over by a train. Marrying without love, he exorcises the dead girl's memory, realizes his wife's worth only after a too jauntily told, bitter period of Unemployment and bumming. Night at Hogwallow is a bloodcurdling first work 'aid in the deep...