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Word: nessing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newman's first string orchestra under the baton of Ruby Newman himself will supply music for the occasion until two o'clock in the morning. Karl Adams, Jr. '33, J. M. Bradley '33, N. P. Hodge '33, E. F. Noyes '32, S. H. Stackpole '33, and G. B. Van Ness '33 will compose the dance committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/6/1932 | See Source »

Recent appoints to the staff of producers are as follows: Karl Adams, Jr. '33, and T. K. Dunstan '33, to the joint managership of tickets; B. P. Rogers '33 and G. B. Van Ness '33 to the joint managership of publicity; and Thomas Whiteside '32 to the managership of costumes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HASTY PUDDING PLAY TRIALS TO TAKE PLACE THIS EVENING | 2/16/1932 | See Source »

...Well, what became of the old full din ner pail? . . . Bank failures blazed in the headlines of every newspaper across the country, bankruptcy proceedings,, fore closures on mortgages, depreciation in the value of prime securities, paralysis of busi ness & industry and. topping it all, 7,000,000 men out of work. . . . The Administration plans for the relief of unemploy ment are indefensible. . . . Why, they passed the question along to the States. localities and private charities [which] cannot cope with the situation. . . . Now, what is the record of these two forms of relief? First is relief in the home; second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Democracy's Week | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...Santa Monica. Calif, police court last week Judge Charles M. Spencer sat on the bench listening to witnesses tell how they had arrested Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt, President Hoover's brother-in-law, last month as he emerged from a grocery store carrying a gunny sack loaded with 19 pints of whiskey (TIME, Nov. 23). Then Judge Spencer heard Mr. Leavitt explain how he had been taking a drink in the rear of the store* when somebody put the sack in his hand, asked him to get rid of it; how he did not know its contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Brother-in-law A cquitted | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

After he had driven his wife to a Hollywood club meeting one day last week, Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt. 57-year-old retired plumber of Santa Monica, found time heavy on his hands. He would, he decided, go and see his old friend Cliff Dailey who ran a grocery and meat store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In Dailey's Meat Store | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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