Word: roes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuous scrambles in all States to control convention delegations; 4) a Republican national convention in mid-June at which Herbert Clark Hoover will almost certainly be renominated for the Presidency and John Doe for the Vice-Presidency; 5) a Democratic national convention a week later at which Richard Roe will be nominated for the Presidency and William Blank for the Vice-Presidency; 6) the steady, if somewhat reduced, flow of cash into the parties' respective campaign chests; 7) the noisy advancement of Senatorial candidacies in 32 or more States, of Congressional candidacies in all 48; 8) the creation of nation...
...week. Thus have run countless similar items in every U. S. newspaper. To clear up the doubt which arises every time a person falls-or-jumps unobserved out of a building, two days later the Times made a suggestion on its editorial page. Taking the case of hypothetical Richard Roe, the Times said...
...Woolsey of Manhattan decided last month. Thereupon Putnam's rushed the printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love- the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore...
Almost every college has its campus character?a decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor. Cornell University's character is Romeyn (pronounced Roe-mine) Berry, graduate manager of athletics. Usually taken for granted, he made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder...
Last week on narrow Lake Windermere, England, he took out his new boat Miss England II, an improvement on Miss England in which he beat Garfield A. Wood in Miami last year. Miss England II was de-signed by F. Cooper and built by Saunders Roe, Ltd., of Cowes. She had two Rolls-Royce engines of 2,000 h. p. each, made of a new aluminum alloy called hiduminium. "Well, now for it," said Segrave. "She's chewed up three propellers. I'm trying a bronze...