Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of the War, was one of the most vital, colorful figures appearing anywhere in public. Fremstad was the daughter of a Swedish masseuse and a Norwegian doctor who gave up a profitable practice in Oslo to go to the U. S. as a Methodist missionary. Settling in St. Peter, some 75 miles from Minneapolis, the self-appointed evangelist toured the Minnesota countryside, holding burning revival meetings. Young Olive went with him. played a portable organ when she was so small that she wore blocks strapped to the bottom of her feet in order to reach the pedals. If conversions...
traveled across the Balkan Peninsula in his royal train to hunt ducks with Yugoslavia's King Peter...
...Robinoitz '36, Cheises, Mass.; David Savan '36, Manchester, N. H.; Francis J. Whitefield '36, Springfield, Mass.; Jerome S. Zurkow '36, New York, N. Y.; William A. Beardslee '37, New Brunswick, N. J.; Alfred Biberman '37, Philsdelphia, Pa.; Milton Elkin '37, Roxbury, Mass.; Arthur J. Linenthal '37, Brookline, Mass.; Peter Megalonakis '37, Boston, Mass.; Neil G. Melone '37, Minneapolis, Minn.; Lionel F. Miller Jr. '37, Saranac Lake, N. Y.; Hubert H. Nexon '37, Brookline, Mass.; Thomas L. Perry Jr. '37, Asheville, N. C.; Robert E. Shalen '37, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert J. Stevenson '37, Washington, D. C.; Francis G. Blake...
Russia's Empress Catherine I ("Katinka"). not to be confused with Catherine II ("The Great"), got her start as a common soldier's wench who was handed up to a crack Swedish dragoon, to a marshal, to a prince and finally to Peter the Great, whose death left her on the Throne a reigning sovereign. From China last week arrived tidings almost as romantic. Years ago a cheap Chinese photographer had a certain young Chinese woman as handy girl around his studio. Buyers of obscene postcards were attracted by her looks. She was passed up to Mr. Henry...
...contemporary of the News' Munger at the University of Chicago was Robert P. (for Peter) Vanderpoel, lanky, critical financial editor of the Evening American. He was the first Chicago editor to treat the Board of Trade not as a privileged private club but as a public institution susceptible of improvement. With Royal Munger he was viewing the Insull empire with quiet alarm two years before it fell. In his column called "VANDERPOEL" he is usually to be found in any economic corner except the popular one. One of his punching bags currently is the general theory that real Recovery...