Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farms, has been appointed sub-chairman of the Photographic Board, which is headed by Hans H. Zinsser; William J. Clothier, 2nd, of Valley Forge, Pa., and Philip T. Shahan, of Clayton, Mo., of the Editorial Board, which is headed by James H. Alexandre, III; Clarence D. Martin, Jr., of Olympia, Washington, and Edwin K. Bennett, of Queens Village, N. Y., of the Business Board, under Albert Damon; and John H. McCormick, of Dorchester, of the Art Board, under Edward L. Barnes...
Somewhere near the Capitol at Frankfort, Olympia, Augusta, Helena, Jefferson City, Salem, Pierre, Tallahassee or any other State capital is generally to be found a low, musty, old-fashioned hotel with a stuffed elk's head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions...
Last week, for the first time in history, a Duke of Kent walked around the stalls of London's Olympia to open the British Automobile Show. In fact this was the first time in 114 years that there had been a Duke of Kent to open anything...
Banker Reno Odlin of Olympia, sleek and 37, was the Republican choice for Senator. Like his opponent, he is a U. of W. alumnus, a onetime State Commander of the American Legion. He drinks milk because a Wartime dose of mustard gas makes liquor unpalatable. A director of Puget Sound Power & Light Co., Nominee Odlin during the campaign called public attention to the fact that Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt owns private utility stock. Since he is as conservative as Herbert Hoover, Washington voters will have no complaint against obscurity of issues in the Senatorial race this autumn. And since Washington...
County highway patrols last week scoured the countryside around Chicago looking for a wanted man. They found him finally upon the golf course of Olympia Fields Country Club and led him, not to jail, but to a telephone. The wanted man was Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan. The person who wanted him, at the other end of the telephone line, was General Hugh S. Johnson. The reason the Judge was wanted: the General had just settled Chicago's Stock Yards strike (TIME...