Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations convene at Geneva none were more excited than 15 eager, earnest U. S. collegians. Members of the Students' International Union, they had been waiting all summer for such a chance. Almost as excited as her charges was the Union's founder and angel, Mrs. Alexander Murray Hadden. A statuesque Manhattan socialite with white hair and blue saucer eyes, Mrs. Hadden every year invites a select group of U. S. colleges to give one or more of their students a $300 scholarship at the Union. To furnish contacts she then corrals an equal number of foreign students. Ostensibly...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: On his new 80-acre farm near Broken Bow, Oklahoma's onetime Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray roused himself from a night's sleep on the cabin floor, cooked breakfast over a fire in the front yard, shambled unrecognized into the village store and bought some groceries. Snarled the storekeeper: "One dollar and sixty-five cents-and three cents for the sales tax that that goddam Governor Murray put on the poor man's grub." When indignant citizens stormed Little Rock demanding a special session...
...volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time in October...
Nathaniel C. ("Nat") Murray, 72, crop estimator for Clement, Curtis & Co., Chicago brokers. Slender, scholarly, pipe-sucking, he inherited his eye for crops from his father who was editor & publisher of the Cincinnati Price Current. Forecaster Murray started with the Department of Agriculture, whose crop reporting section he headed from 1920 to 1923. The Canadian wheat pool is said to have considered Nat Murray's crop estimates better than the U. S. Government's. His record for accuracy is best illustrated by the fact that the average of. his final crop predictions over an eight year period matched the Government...
...flight across the Atlantic, was forced down on remote Greenly Island at the mouth of the frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett's life. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sped to the Rockefeller Institute, snatched a supply...