Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shame that Sumner Welles neither received his hoped for appointment or entertained the Roosevelts at his elaborate house, especially rented for the vacation. I guess the protocol chief will fare better in his race for the Canadian appointment. He has tried hard enough...
...Presidential appointment Harry Hines Woodring, onetime Governor of Kansas, became Assistant Secretary of War. President Roosevelt also picked Sumner Wells of Maryland to be an Assistant Secretary of State, Daniel William MacCormack, Scotch-born New York banker, to be Commissioner General of Immigration, Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, California lawyer, to be Director of Prohibition in the Department of Justice and Claude G. Bowers of New York to be Ambassador to Spain. He considered making Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, the first woman to represent the U. S. in an important diplomatic office, as Minister to Denmark...
Coach Cowles already has a squad of 11 men at work. They include; W. E. Arensberg '33, captain, M. L. Baughman '35, C. S. Bryan '33, S. E. Davenport '34, Lawrence Friedman 1Dn., W. E. Ingalls '35, Richard Inglis '33, G. D. Key '33, J. F. Ray '34, Sumner Rodman '35, and F. P. Whitbeck...
...went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late great Charles William Eliot. Other Boston Latin pupils: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Graham Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Orator Edward Everett...
...Media, Pa., a twelvemonth ago George Sumner Nahill won $20,000 in a Loyal Order of Moose lottery. He banked $10,000, bought a $10,000 house. To wife he took Iline Thelma Byrd. All spent last week was George Sumner Nahill's $10,000. His wife divorced him, jailed him for nonsupport, because he refused to sign over his $10,000 house. He signed. Out from jail a free man on his lottery anniversary stepped George Sumner Nahill...