Word: phelpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gouverneur Morris Phelps Jr., son of a well-known Manhattan physician, stood at the rail with his father and stepmother. Plainly visible were the shore lights across the stormy waters. Dr. Phelps turned to his wife and said: "Katharine, that light over there must be Scotland Lisht and that one...
At dawn the blazing Morro Castle was surrounded by rescue ships, the great three-funnelled Monarch of Bermuda, the coastwise steamer City of Savannah and the freighter Andrea F. Luckenbach, one of whose officers in a small boat grabbed young Phelps, dragged him to safety. Contorted faces appeared at cabin...
There Governor Cross of Connecticut came forward with outstretched hand to greet Harvard Alumnus Roosevelt. Through crowded streets the visitors drove to Yale's auditorium, Woolsey Hall, to attend the University's 233rd Commencement. While an orchestra played the overture to Die Meister singer, the President, leaning on...
Said Professor Phelps: "The President has done more to make the first page of the newspapers interesting than any other President in time of peace. We do not know what will happen in the next two years, but we know" it will be interesting. ... As a leader of the people...
A wave of buying broke over the copper market fortnight ago. In three consecutive trading days 41,000 tons were sold, equivalent to the output of all U.S. mines for two months at current production. Reason: domestic producers had notified the sales clearing agent of the Copper Code Authority that...