Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phenomenal in 1938 was Robert Alphonso Taft's Ohio Senatorial victory over promising New Dealer Robert Johns Bulkley. Mr. Taft was phenomenally dull, phenomenally serious, phenomenally popular at the polls. Prissy, solemn, ponderous Mr. Taft was expected to fade away into the obscure routine of a freshman Senator. He didn't. He engaged in a series of radio debates with clever, Horace-quoting Democratic Congressman T. V. Smith of Illinois. Most people expected Mr. Taft to be skunked. But pollsters found the U. S. public voting for Senator Taft's serious, platitudinous remarks 2-to-1 over...
...prominent Communists, Nicholas Dozenberg, a founder of the U. S. Communist Party, and Robert William Wiener, treasurer of the Party,* were arrested last week. Dozenberg's alleged offense: lending his naturalization papers for Earl Browder's use in 1921. Wiener's alleged offense: illegal residence in the U. S. Plump, balding Robert Wiener pleaded not guilty before a Federal judge in Manhattan, heard a U. S. Attorney call him "the rankest sort of impostor," charge that under the aliases of Wiener, Weiner, A. Benson, A. Blake, he was really Welwel Warszower from Russia...
Other dispatches of last week told of a French night patrol which captured three Germans. When they got back to a French dugout and could see, Captive Kurt Stöpel, German cyclist, recognized Captor Robert Oubron, French cyclist, against whom he had often pedaled in international races...
Continuing in a tradition set last year, Dunster House will present an all-student play, "Take It Off", in the dining hall tonight. The play is written and directed by Robert Anderson '39, 1G., who was the author of "Hour Town" presented last Christmas...
Treasurer will be Amory Parker '41, in place of Paul W. Cherington '40; Rudson R. Ansley '42, was elected Pegasus. Robert J. Bottomly, Jr. '41 is business Manager, Lousdale F. Stowell '41 is Advertising Manager and Richard E. Johnson '42 Circulation Manager...