Word: stewart
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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...
Elected-John Stewart Baker, board chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co.: to be President of the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York, succeeding Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who resigned after having held the position since...
...rolled the royal train. King George in the dress uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, with the green ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, stepped out followed by Queen Elizabeth in forget-me-not blue, his two excited little daughters. Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, in strawberry pink coats. Louis Stewart Gumley, Edinburgh's Lord Provost stepped forward, tendered the city's keys to King George on a red satin cushion, bade him welcome to his "ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland...
...Last week Tennessee's new law setting 16 years as the minimum age for brides brought 12-year-old Geneva Hamby Peel and gangling, 32-year-old Homer Peel into court at Madisonville. But Judge A. T. Stewart sent the child back to the hills with her husband in the belief that she would be better off there than with her ne'er-do-well mother or in a State institution...
...than 30 years old. But the migration of show business to the country in pursuit of vacationing customers did not become a general movement until the early, depressed 19305. It had started, however, in the preceding decade when stage-struck Eastern collegians-notably the Princeton group headed by James Stewart, Myron McCormick, Joshua Logan and Bretaigne Windust-began spending their vacations doing old and new plays in New England resort communities. In 1930 there were 15 active "straw hat" companies within a night's railroad ride of Manhattan. By 1934, numerically the peak season, Variety could list 105 summer...