Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of eleven aseptic-looking white buildings, glistens upon the East River at 68th Street. It represents an amalgamation of New York Hospital (oldest in the U. S. save for Philadelphia's Pennsylvania), Bloomingdale Hospital, Lying-in Hospital, Manhattan Maternity Hospital, and Cornell Medical College. Dr. George Canby Robinson, director of the joint administrative board of the organization, hopes it will become "a modern temple of healing...
Concretely the conference set up a central committee to co-ordinate the twelve regional committees of the Federal Reserve and serve as a G. H. Q. in the war on depression. Placed in charge was Henry Mauris Robinson, Los Angeles banker and good Hoover friend, who has spent the last three weeks at the While House preparing for the conference. Six subcommittees were appointed for the following purposes...
...Harding was "run" by Secretary of State Hughes, Attorney General Daugherty, Interior Secretary Fall and Mrs. Harding. The real powers in the Coolidge administration were Massachusetts' Senator Butler, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Speaker of the House Longworth. President Hoover's ear is wide open to Banker Henry Robinson of Los Angeles, Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Postmaster General Brown, Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board and Mrs. Hoover (against liquor). If Governor Roosevelt is elected President, who will...
...YORK TEMPEST-Manuel Komroff-Coward-McCann. On April 12, 1836, Manhattan had something to talk about. Pretty Courtesan Ellen Jewett was found strangled in her room. Circumstantial evidence glared at one Robinson, young man-about-town. Editor James Gordon Bennett himself covered the story for his New York Herald. Author Komroff, changing the names of his protagonists to Oliver Benson and Jane Holden, follows closely the history of the case, but takes it further, deeper than Editor Bennett did. Jane, like many a storybook harlot, was pathological only in having a heart of gold. She gave Benson her true love...
...cities that house their art with their government. Denverites waiting for an audience with alert Mayor George D. Begole may go up to the fourth floor and contemplate pictures by Rubens. Degas, Rousseau, Ryder and Boardman Robinson, director of the Boardmoor Art Academy at Colorado Springs. In the Art Museum's 14 galleries they may look at a bronze statue by Maillol, at Japanese and Chinese art, at collections of medals, ceramics, furniture...