Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe. He joined the Harvard faculty almost immediately on his return, became a professor of Government in 1920. He has always had a close association with actual government, having served on numerous Federal and State commissions. A busy author, his favorite, flavor is Party and State Government. But in spite of all his activities and five children, he still manifests his great personal interest in his students...
...rising Democratic star as early as 1930. His success as the publisher of the Philadelphia Record,. "FIGHTING ALONE" for Franklin D. Roosevelt in a traditionally Republican town, encouraged him to try his luck as the one fanatically New Deal voice in Democratic New York City. But in spite of "oxygen" for Post circulation (266,151 for the six months ending March 31, 1938) provided by guessing contests, cheap sets of Dickens and reproductions of Modern Masters, the Post has not done too well. With 3,251,223 lines of paid advertising in the six months ending last June, the Post...
Sunday, August 28, more than 100,000 people overran Akron's municipal airport for the annual aviation day sponsored by the Scripps-Howard Times-Press. The program was a success in spite of one embarrassing circumstance: there was no Times-Press. In its edition that morning, the Times-Press announced that it had been acquired by its competitor, John S. Knight's rich and dowdy Beacon-Journal. Akron, a lusty industrial centre of 255,000 population, was left with one daily paper...
...being known as simply "Kathleen Norris' husband." Bricks Without Straw takes the topical theme of Radical Youth. Son of a strait-laced Midwest banker, likable, 20-year-old Jerry Kennedy went to Manhattan in 1904, fell in love with a beautiful music student named Connie, married her in spite of his family's bigoted objection to her Catholicism. Then he lost his job and his father refused to send any money...
...spite of England's last-match victory -by the widest margin in its 62-year history-the series was tied, and Australia kept "The Ashes...