Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muddy morass of shifting sands and marshy lagoons offered the "difficult foundations" of the Havana Country Club. It was first sketched on the back of a dog-eared envelope and capital was subscribed by such Havana bigwigs of those days as Lawyer Norman Hezekiah Davis, now President Roosevelt's famed Ambassador-at-Large. As go-getting Mr. Snare mellowed into "Father Snare," his club historically changed the mores of Havana's better class. Today week-end drunks are anything but smart. And golf and tennis unchaperoned have become the birthright of Cuban debutantes, if they disport themselves...
...took yesterday at the general's review of his troops. Also for your information-a number of people who know something about North China and its personages have transferred the "goatbeard" of your General Sung Cheh-yuan (TIME, Dec. 9) to the chin of your Foreign News editor. . . . NORMAN T. H. SOONG...
...Virginia who took part in the famed Mingo March of 1921 which brought out the U. S. Army and ended in a treason trial in the same Charles Town, W. Va. courthouse where John Brown was found guilty. There was Powers Hapgood from Illinois, nephew of oldtime liberal Editor Norman Hapgood. He had worked his way around the world in coal mines, had been fired on for distributing handbills in Pennsylvania. In a thoroughly rebellious spirit such delegates as these introduced hundreds of resolutions favoring President Lewis' stand for industrial unionism, voted approval of a radio campaign to spread...
...tons with 5.1-inchers. Up popped the French and Italian delegates. In quick succession they said their governments would have preferred a British proposal to limit capital ships to 27,000 tons with 12-in. guns. For the U. S. grey and graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis repeated the immemorial naval thesis of Washington: only "quantitative limitation" (limitation of whole fleets by global tonnage) is of real use. Such "qualitative limitation" as the British proposed last week he disparaged as inadequate, though he was forced to admit: "The situation has changed...
...closest contests of the handicap meet is expected to be between Steve Brennan and Norman Cahners. Nothing definite is known of the strength in the dashes and broad jump...