Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the breakoff stalemated the debts, President Hoover and Governor Roosevelt still had a link between them in the person of Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis. U. S. arms delegate and Hoover Man-about-Europe. Arriving in Manhattan on the Manhattan last week Delegate Davis announced: "There's no doubt that the world is in a terrible fix. The nations seem to realize that if they don't want to perish separately they must get together." Speeding to Washington Mr. Davis spent 90 minutes reporting to President Hoover. Said he: "It's a great thing to get, Germany...
...experiences. His publishers and film executives refused to reveal his whereabouts to police. But lately he gave a lecture at Westfield, N. J. in conjunction with the showing of his film. And growing yet bolder, last month he attended a luncheon at Trenton, sat next to Superintendent Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of New Jersey's State police...
White Tags. Without ceremony of any sort and in the notable absence of Montagu Collet Norman, fox-bearded Governor of the Bank of England, an emissary from Mr. Norman's office picked up a handful of white tags and an order for 11,500 gold bars, took an elevator down 60 ft. to the Old Lady's bullion vaults. With him went an ordinary detail of scarlet-coated British guardsmen wearing bearskin hats and carrying Army rifles with fixed bayonets...
Gold is such heavy stuff that a 17-in. cube weighs a ton. It took four husky gnomes to budge each little truck. They trundled the selected trucks a distance of 30 ft. across the vault, bunched them together against the wall. Having seen this done, Governor Norman's emissary returned upstairs and a cable was dispatched to the Federal Reserve Bank...
...Matador Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Actresses Ethel Barrymore and Louise Closser Hale, of pneumonia in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Hollywood respectively; Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrdt of influenza, in Boston; Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 68, onetime President of Rockefeller Foundation and University of Minnesota, after an appendectomy, in Greenwich, Conn.; Norman B. Woolworth, cousin of the late tycoon Winfield (5 & 10¢) Woolworth. aboard his chartered yacht Cyprus, near Charleston...