Word: rotund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week, rotund Ira N. Gabrielson, who was appointed chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey last year by Mr. Chrysler's good friend Franklin Roosevelt, commented: "All citizens are equal under the Law and our men are instructed to arrest all law violators regardless of their identity...
Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Soviet spokesman at Montreux, was 60 years old last week. Because in Bolshevik theory a Foreign Commissar is a most unimportant character, not to be compared with such weighty men as Defense Commissar Voroshilov or Commissar of Transportation Andreyev, photographs of rotund Commissar Litvinoff are practically non-existent in Russia. Millions of good Communists do not even know of his existence. As a birthday present Joseph Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration...
Acting Postmaster General for August, September and October will be First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, a rotund, nervous man who bounces when he walks, smokes cigarets continuously and is South Dakota's No. 1 Democrat. Wisconsin-born, he studied law at the University of South Dakota, landed in Wolsey to begin practice with $40 in his pocket. He spent $5 for a shingle, collected a $5 fee from a cowman client a few moments later. So popular was Bill Howes as a State Senator some 20 years ago that when a daughter was born...
Into an operating room of Manhattan's gorgeous Doctors Hospital famed diagnostician Henry Harlow Brooks, rotund and haggard, was wheeled last Sunday. Long a professor in New York University Medical College, unusually skilful in the treatment of heart disease, Dr. Brooks, 65, had just returned to Manhattan from Miami. Feeling uncommonly weary he at first decided that he had caught the grippe in the South. But three other able diagnosticians and three able surgeons, all six professors in their specialties, decided that their doctor-patient suffered with an abscessed liver...
Because the high ceilings permitted him to display his Oriental tapestries and African trophies to best advantage, 20 years ago bearded, rotund Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts took a lifetime lease on an apartment in Washington's Arlington Hotel. Six months ago, when New Dealer Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration rented the building, Representative Tinkham stood on his legal rights, refused to budge...