Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arthritis born of infected teeth had him down. And he announced that illness constrained him to resign, bequeathing the governorship to Huey's ambitious, vituperative Brother Earl, the Lieutenant Governor. Said Richard Leche: "Mr. Long has tremendous backing throughout the country and is the announced choice of Mayor Robert S. Maestri of the city of New Orleans...
...living in the British Empire, and a Government spokesman broadcast the warning that Britain might be forced into "countermeasures for the protection of British rights." Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax called Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu to his office and gave him the talking to of his life. At Tokyo Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, the British Ambassador, also protested, conferred for a half hour with Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita on a basis for negotiation of a settlement of the British-Japanese deadlock at Tientsin. One point upon which negotiations waited was the Japanese insistence on holding conferences, not in Tokyo...
...Heiser quoted a now-classic experiment : "Sir Robert McCarrison established in India [in the early 1920s] a thoroughly healthy rat colony. The [1,189] stock rats were fed a diet similar to that eaten by certain peoples of northern India, among whom are some of the finest physical specimens of mankind. The diet consisted of whole-wheat flour, unleavened bread lightly smeared with fresh butter, sprouted Bengal gram (legume), fresh raw carrots and cabbage, unboiled whole milk, a small ration of raw meat with bones once a week. . . . During two and a quarter years [about 70 years for human beings...
...shoulders with the proletariat in saloons and subways. A rich boy himself, Joe Patterson never got along with other rich boys, had made several sporadic efforts to become a man of the people before he found his chance as a publisher. From 1914 until 1925 he and his cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running of the Chicago Tribune (which their grandfather, Joseph Medill, had founded), and Patterson was as much responsible for the common touch in its news coverage as McCormick was for its conservative editorial bias. The two conceptions did not quite jell in the Tribune...
Aids to the general clack of reminiscence were three passengers who had crossed on the Mauretania's, maiden voyage in 1907: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Middlemass, of Glasgow, Little Businessman Cyrus Morfey, of Herefordshire. All three said they liked the new ship fine...