Word: stu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambition to sit in the House of Representatives. That ambition guided his early life. Graduated by Willamette University at Salem, Ore. (1884), he taught school, went on chautauqua circuits, made political friends. Aged 21, he married Anna M. Geisendorfer who bore him two sons, one daughter. (His son Cecil ("Stu"), chief road man for Texas Co., last summer set a New York-Los Angeles round trip automobile record of 141 hrs. in a Buick.) He served as president of Oregon State Normal School (1888-91), president of Willamette University (1893-1902). Studying law on the side, he was admitted...
...despite the efforts of a citizens' committee headed by Banker-Lawyer Silas Hardy Strawn. Last week Mr. Strawn attended an investment-bankers' meeting at New Orleans, made a speech about municipal securities, raised a voice as indignant as Rabbi Wise's: "Have you ever contemplated the stu pidity of our people in permitting our municipal machinery to be run by politicians . . . who frequently are men who have no education, who know nothing about government, finance, sanitation, city planning or anything else that is vital to ... a great city...
...company's ground publicist is Cecil ("Stu") Hawley, son of tariff-making Congressman Willis Chatman Hawley of Oregon. As chief of the company's road information service he annually motors thousands of miles at record speeds. Last August he motored from Manhattan to Los Angeles in 67 hr. 38 min., the record. Also a record was his round trip time...
Born. To Irving Grant Thalberg, an executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu- dios, and Cinemactress Norma Shearer; at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles; a boy. Weight...
Next morning, while the Government's army in Santo Domingo remained stu- diously neutral in their barracks, the invasion of Santo Domingo city began. Two thousand revolutionists, mostly farmers in blue overalls with rifles slung from their shoulders, sauntered into town. Citizens cheered half-heartedly from the curbstones. Back from Santiago de los Caballeros came the mud-spattered runabout coupe, and seated beside Courier Cabot was "Supreme Chief" Urena. On his head, a slouch hat, from the pocket of his flannel shirt protruded a fountain pen, from his shoulder hung a broad-bladed sword, its handle ivory-inlaid...