Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judgeships, one of the biggest single batches ever.*In the President's files were endorsements for 223 candidates for these vacancies -important political ammunition in an election year. And while the President studied his shots, more Federal Court vacancies came to hand, in the Third Circuit Court at Philadelphia. A rugged rock in the path of the New Deal steam roller was this Third Circuit Court. Four of its aged justices-Joseph Buffmgton, J. Whitaker Thompson, Victor B. Woolley, J. Warren Davis-had worked together for years in closest conservative harmony...
...Rudy Valentino from their mothers. Wrote one lady patron to the theatre's manager: "I loved him, I loved him, I loved him-I still love him." This week The Son of the Sheik is scheduled to play in 16 cities, including Los Angeles, Cleveland, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Next week, it will be on view in 31. Thereafter, it will play about-500 key circuit theatres and eventually 5,000 neighborhood houses. Entrepreneur Jensen's conservative estimate of his takings from The Son of the Sheik's renaissance...
...five years, but the terms of the last two, Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts and Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, totaled 56 years. At the annual Assemblies of the church, the Moderator (elected for one year) presides, but between times the Stated Clerk, resident in the "Presbyterian Vatican" in Philadelphia's musty old Witherspoon Building, directs the activities of the church, answers hard questions on church law, handles all documents, acts as a one-man committee on Assembly arrangements and the credentials of delegates. Last week, with Stated Clerk Mudge about to retire at 70, the 150th Assembly...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Travelling, Albert and Anna Howard Fellowship to John L. Angel '36, of New York. Resident, Austin Fellowship to Vernon J. Parenton, of University, Louisiana; Edward Austin Fellowship to Charles C. Yeager, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bliss Fund and University Scholarship to John M. Chandler, of Bartlett, New Hampshire; Bliss Fund to Arthur E. MacGregor, of Needham; Bliss Fund and University Scholarship to Cammann H. Niederhof, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bliss fund and University Scholarship to Jonathan W. Wright, of Spokane, Washington; Graduate Fellowships in Government to Edgar J. Kemler, of Baltimore, Maryland, Frederick H. Bullen...
Speaking at a recent scientific forum as part of the three-day exercises dedicating the Benjamin Franklin memorial of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Merritt L. Fernald, Fisher Professor of Natural History and Director of the Gray Herbarium, branded the "misguided and enthusiastic young men" of he CCC as destroyers of the "natural equilibrium of nature...