Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Chile over the Andes to Argentina the President last week shifted Ambassador Norman Armour, 51, famed as the State Department's smoothest French-speaker, whose wife is a Russian princess. To be Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands he named Robert Morss Lovett, 68, distinguished left-wing belles-lettrist, Emeritus Professor of English of the University of Chicago, persistent civil libertarian...
...last month got a job in the U. S. Attorney's office, Manhattan. He had a stepson, Wilmarth, who committed suicide in 1936. He and the first Mrs. Ickes also had two foster-children: a girl who is now Mrs. ReQua Bryant of Evanston, Ill., and Robert H. Ickes, 25, onetime WPA clerk, now employed by Duquesne Light Co. in Pittsburgh, who last week eloped with Marcelle Charlotte Levine, 19, to Lisbon, Ohio, where they were married...
Establishment of a new Ralph Walde Emerson Fellowship in Poetry, and the appointment of Robert Frost, noted poet, as first incumbent, were announced today by the University...
Funds for the new fellowship were raised by a committee composed of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English; Robert S. Hillyer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Archibald MacLeish, poet and journalist, Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism; David M. Little, Secretary to the University, and Master of Adams House; and David McCord, poet, Executive Secretary of the Harvard Fund Council...
Thomas V. Healey, Sherman Hoar, Ward M. Hussey, William C. Hurtt, Paul E. Illman, Jr., Bartow Kelley, Robert A. Krancer, James D. Lightbody, Jr., Charles D. Lutz, Jr., Torbert H. Macdonald, Stephen L. Madey, Howard P. Mendel, August R. Meyer, George S. Olive, Jr., Peter E. Pratt, Thomas H. E. Quimby, Edward C. K. Read, Edward G. Robinson...