Word: pell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their pell-mell way to join the New Deal in the spring of 1933, the professors of the Brain Trust might have noticed one of their former colleagues proceeding in the opposite direction. The tall, bald, rangy gentleman with the glum expression was William Marion Jardine, who had deserted his books to be Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt. After a brief stay in the Kansas State Treasurer's office, Republican Jardine was offered and accepted the presidency of the Municipal University of Wichita. (Enrollment...
Thanks a Million. To get Dick Powell for the lead in this topical, pell-mell musical cinema. Producer Zanuck traded Fredric March to Warner Bros, for Anthony Adverse. A troupe of entertainers, stuck in a small town on a rainy night, strangle into a political rally to get dry and become part of the election machinery when Troupe Manager Fred Allen sells the candidate for Governor the idea of spicing up his speeches with songs by the Yacht Club Boys, Rubinoffs fiddling. Before long Dick Powell wins the party nomination, campaigns successfully with speeches guaranteed not to last more than...
...Norman C. Norman turned up at the Electric Bond & Share stockholders' meeting, it was obvious there would be more news than just a reading of the annual report. Nothing happened until after Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck had given an accounting of his 1935 stewardship. Then Stockholder Herbert Claiborne Pell proposed that the corporation make no effort to influence public opinion against the Public Utility Act of 1935. Stockholder Pell, onetime (1921-26) Democratic State Chairman for New York and onetime (1919-21) U. S. Representative, argued that the more the company protested against Government interference, the more the Government...
Married. Lucile Brokaw, 20, daughter of Irving Brokaw, Manhattan socialite and ice-skater; and James Duane Pell Bishop, socialite rug company employe; in Locust Valley...
...county or up to that of a country. Actually, of course, the British genius for muddling through would easily extemporize a solution, nobody much cared what. Also it was pointed out that every election on Prince Edward Island for three decades has been a "landslide," the islanders always rushing pell mell to vote Conservative or Liberal, whichever is the opposite of the way they voted last time...