Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conjecture on "Kitty's" successor as Gurnery Professor of English Literature comes to an end with the appointment today of Fred N. Robinson '91, Professor of English, to take over that post next fall...
This left as the nation's Public Enemy No. 1 a female impersonator: Thomas H. Robinson Jr., who snatched Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll in Louisville, Ky. in 1934. Said Director Hoover: "It's only a matter of time. . . ." It was a matter of a few-days before G-men captured Robinson in Glendale, Calif. He had doffed the women's clothes in which he had frequently eluded his pursuers, disguised himself instead with a mustache. On Robinson his captors found $4,200 of the $50,000 Stoll ransom...
...attend from Harvard: J. Sinclair Armstrong '38, Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, John B. Bowditch '37, Morris Earle '38, Manning Emery, III '37, James A. Field '37, Caleb Foote '39, H. Shippen Goodhue '38, Bruce Griswold '38, James B. Hallett '37, Philip Haring '37, Robert C. Lea '37, Shipherd Robinson '36, Charles M. Storey Jr. '37, Donald B. Straus '38, William P. VanEvera '37, Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Peter Weinberger '38, nad Benjamin Welles...
...April 27). Up in the Senate last week rose speaker after speaker to praise the Bureau of Investigation's work, insist that the $225,000 be put back in the appropriation bill. "I would not revive, by any act or vote of mine," cried Democratic Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas, "one hope in the bosom of a gangster by withholding the means that are necessary to pursue him around this earth, to the very gates of Hell...
...permanent chairman Democrats picked, almost inevitably, President Roosevelt's most faithful Capitol standby, the Majority Leader of the Senate, Joseph Taylor ("Joe") Robinson of Arkansas...