Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition the President has the appointment of 90 U. S. District Attorneys, 15.031 post-masters and a host of minor officials down to and including notaries public of the District of Columbia. The only high executive official who is legally safe in his job after March 4 is John Raymond McCarl. Comptroller General of the U. S., appointed in 1921 for a 15-year-term and removable only by impeachment...
...team that played California at Los Angeles last week, more people might have gone to see the game. As it was, there were 75,000, biggest crowd of the week. Even without Mohler, U. S. C. had a team which contained four Ail-American prospects: Captain and Left Tackle Raymond C. ("Tay") Brown, who makes a specialty of blocking punts; Right Tackle Ernie Smith, who has a bald head, huge paws and a talent for place-kicks; Ray Sparling, left-end, and at the other end of the line Ford Palmer who caught the two passes that enabled...
Indiana. Republican Raymond Springer rode circus elephants in an effort to be Governor. But Democratic Paul Vories McNutt, onetime (1928-29) Commander of the American Legion, rode the Roosevelt wave, left him far behind. Ohio. Democratic Governor George White, onetime gold-rusher in the Klondike, managed to resist the popular tide against the "ins" and hold his office against Republican David Sinton Ingalls, young and wealthy, the Navy's only War ace. At the President's request, Governor-reject Ingalls had left the Hoover sub-Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry...
...bristles. Odder still is a nameless fly, distant cousin to the housefly, whose larvae live by crawling into other insects, such as Japanese beetles and gypsy moths, and eating them from the inside. Between these two flies science recognized no kinship, but the Smithsonian Institution's Raymond C. Shannon guessed better. He went to southwestern Argentina, climbed high, searched long. He found a fly. Back to the Smithsonian in Washington he hastened. There Entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend examined the Shannon fly, pronounced it the missing link between botfly and parasitic fly, a hitherto unknown phenomenon, a botfly with...
...three motorists ringing a musty doorbell in the hope of finding shelter from a thunderstorm. The door is opened by a butler (Boris Karloff) whose hair is unbrushed but whose face looks as though he had combed it with a threshing machine. In the old dark house, the motorists (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas) are insulted by their hosts, a family of Femms who are living in seclusion to avoid being hanged for murder. While the Femms and their guests are dining on cold roast beef, boiled potatoes and stale bread, more motorists arrive, a Welsh millionaire (Charles Laughton...