Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ernst Glaessel, 53, head of Roland Line before it was merged with North German Lloyd, was elected chairman of the board of management of N. G. L., succeeding the late Dr. Carl J. Stimming...
...boys' band, gets celebrities to visit the institution, among them: Tom Mix,* Admiral Byrd, Paul Whiteman, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Will Rogers. With a fanfare from the local Press, Father Flanagan got up from his sick bed fortnight ago and set out for Seattle to plead with Governor Roland Hartley for Herbert Niccolls' custody. Said Father Flanagan: "I am willing to back my reputation of years of work that I can aid this boy to become a useful citizen. . . . No boy of twelve can be a murderer at heart. . . . I now have the pleasure of watching...
...Died. Roland William Boyden, 68, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, Hoover-appointed last year to succeed Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; of heart disease; in Beverly, Mass. In 1923 he caused international shivers by saying that the reparations provisions of the Treaty of Versailles were impossible, would affect Germany's financial situation until revised. Secretary of State Hughes told him to desist from expressing his views...
...Scoreboard at the Stade Roland Garros, near Paris last week the blank space reserved for the name of the Davis Cup winners was barely big enough for the word FRANCE, too small for the name of France's opponent in the challenge round, GRANDE BRETAGNE. The painter of the signboard explained how this had come about. He had reserved a space just big enough for ETATS UNIS for the winner of the matches between the U. S. and England. When England amazingly beat the U. S., he had to use GRANDE BRETAGNE instead. There was no room...
...since 1919 has a British Davis Cup team reached the challenge round. When the British Davis Cup team played the U. S. at Stade Roland Garros, Paris, last week, it was almost a foregone conclusion that little dignified Herbert Wilbur (''Bunny") Austin, Frederick Perry and Perry's Irish doubles partner, George Patrick Hughes, would speedily lose a majority of their five matches. Their opponents were Sidney B. Wood Jr., who won the British championship at Wimbledon fortnight ago; his good friend Francis Xavier Shields who defaulted to him in the Wimbledon finals; and George Lott Jr. & John...