Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upped to the membership vacated by the retirement of Republican Irvin Stewart for a full seven-year term was Commander Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven, a 44-year-old Annapolis graduate who has been the Commission's Chief Engineer for two years. To replace Chairman Anning S. Prall, who died last July, the President temporarily transferred Frank Ramsay McNinch from the chairmanship of the Federal Power Commission. Able, sharp-faced Mr. McNinch, 64, twice mayor of Charlotte, N. C., is a close adviser of the President on power questions. He promptly announced that he knew nothing about...
...Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters" weekly dramatization. "They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin's tale, instead told one about a rich New Yorker named Shattuck who pursued a thieving butler across the ocean, caught him in France and had him sent...
...between his 16 foreign trade treaties and U. S. ships; how the Matson Line has edged the wave-ruling British from the South Pacific; how American Export Lines almost made money without Government aid (see p. 30); how Lykes Bros, could lose $7,000,000 in the Gulf in seven years and still net $4,200,000; the diligent falderol and doubtful fun of a cruise to Havana; Maritime Labor; eight typical U. S. ports in paint, seven typical seamen in prose, twelve Margaret Bourke-White photographs of that pride of the U. S. seas, the old S. S. Leviathan...
Director Pratt was especially excited about a drawing which he is sure is the original study by Hans Holbein the Younger for his famed Progress of Riches, painted after 1532. Another discovery was a set of seven grotesque heads which had been attributed to Holbein. "I'll stake my reputation," said Director Pratt, "that these . . . are the work of Leonardo da Vinci...
...British (Wimbledon Champion Dorothy Round stayed at home). In the first day's play at Forest Hills last week, Alice Marble beat Ruth Mary Hardwick, Helen Jacobs beat Kay Stammers and Sarah Palfrey Fabyan & Alice Marble won a doubles match from Evelyn Dearman & Joan Ingram. With seven matches scheduled and the U. S. leading 3-to-0, the U. S. had a chance to clinch the Cup in the second day's first match, in which Miss Jacobs was to play Miss Hardwick...