Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native-born Texan and a rustic who has never shot a gun, baited a hook, used tobacco in any form, or drunk anything stronger than Brazos water.''* Thus wrote the late President Samuel Palmer Brooks of Baylor University (Waco. Tex.) in his introduction to Battles for Peace, a collection of addresses by his good friend Pat Morris Neff. Many people might have doubted that such a Texan ever existed. Pat Neff not only existed but became Texas' Governor (1921-25). Well-known now is the story of how. hunting with a party which included the late William Jennings Bryan...
Expert In Hammond, Ind., presenting a melodrama from radio station WAE, Roland G. Palmer, sound expert, made noises like galloping horses, howling wind, pattering rain. When the script called for a pistol shot, Sound Man Palmer picked up a pistol, shot off two of his fingers...
Lieutenant C. D. Palmer, Field Artillery, has been appointed to succeed Captain F. D. Sharp as polo coach here next year, it was learned yesterday. He is now stationed at Hawaii, and is due to arrive at Cambridge in July. The new coach was graduated from West Point in 1924 and is a handicapped polo player, who has had considerable experience in Army tournaments...
...which would give their citizens a visual idea of the bloody horror of actual combat and thus build up a mass repugnance to fighting. That the U. S., for all its diplomatic efforts towards peace, is no exception to this fundamental military rule was revealed last week when George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, tried unsuccessfully to get the War Department's permission to print some of its Signal Corps photographs other than those glorifying...
...Cunningham '32, captain of this year's University hockey team, will play left wing for the Boston Hockey Club team in its game tonight with the Fredericton, New Brunswick, Millionaires. On the other wing will be "Ding" Palmer, former Yale star, while J. P. Chase '28, a prominent Harvard player, will skate at center...