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Word: rowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockingham of the State Department of Architecture, who had supervised the construction of the chamber, expressed his satisfaction, announced that he would recommend that the State accept the chamber and pay the contractors their $4,950 fee. The five men in San Quentin's death row scheduled to enter the chamber next, thought Mr. Rockingham, should die in 15 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Preview | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Angeles, absent from the White House for the second wedding anniversary in a row, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt broke the monotony of a lecture tour to call on Shirley Temple, who announced, without revealing her reason, that she was soon going to Washington to see the President. Wrote Mrs. Roosevelt in My Day: "I hope she will not delay her visit too long." In Washington, a delegation of Massachusetts Democrats led by State Committeeman Charles Maliotis, who operates three restaurants and owns some real estate in Boston, called on James Roosevelt to ask him to run for Lieutenant Governor next autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...born immigrant, he had seven shillings in his pocket when he arrived in Manhattan in 1892 after he had boarded a boat which he supposed was carrying him to Australia. Starting as a contractor's timekeeper, he entered the construction business in Washington, built upwards of 9,000 row houses, several hotels and apartment houses, was said to have been landlord to one in every ten Washingtonians. In 1930, when Hotel Management & Securities Corp. took over his apartments and hotels, he lost most of his fortune, estimated at $30,000,000 before Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

HARVARD CAMBRIDGE Hadden f.b. Low Watt r.w.3/4 Ritchie Cohen 1.w.3/4 Reed Constable c,3/4 Mallett Kennedy 2nd5/8 Downes Goft 1st5/8 Kemble Osgood h.b. Parsons Whitney Front Forward Steeds Clowes Front Forward Spencer Knapp Front Forward Heath Scott 2nd Row Jerwood Fisher 2nd Row Newton-Thompson Downes 2nd Row Folker Gephart 2nd Row Bateman-Champain Miller 3rd Row Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Ruggers Favorites Today In Crimson Clash | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

Backs: D. W. Bensley '40, Tom Boulger '40, Bob Burnett '39, Myron Cohen '39, Bill Coleman '40, Ace Cordingly '40, Frazer Curtis '40, James Devine '40, Phil Downes '40, Austie Harding '39, Larry Johnson '39, Ray Jones '39, Torbie MacDonald '40, Ed Robinson '40, Art Row '40, Ernie Sargent '40, and James Buslong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 88 Men Contend for Positions on Next Year's Grid Squad; 46 Freshmen Out | 3/23/1938 | See Source »

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