Word: takoma
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George H. Abbott, Andover. Hugh Amory, Dover. Peter Calingaert, Detroit, Michigan. Cornelius deW. Hastie, Takoma Park, Maryland. Nathan Newbury, III, Weston. Alfred T. Peaslee, Jr., Dubuque, Iowa. John W. Sears, Pride's Crossing. Alan R. Trustman, Brookline. Joseph S. Ullian, Newton Center. Herbert Barry, 3rd, Brookline...
Died. James John Davis, 74, Secretary of Labor (1921-30), Republican Senator from Pennsylvania (1930-45); of uremia and a heart ailment; in Takoma Park, Md. Handsome, handshaking, Welsh-born "Puddler Jim" was a helper in an iron works at eleven, later made a fortune in investments before he entered politics. A longtime power in the Loyal Order of Moose (director general since 1906), he pushed its membership from 247 to more than 800,000, founded its two major charities (Moosehaven, Fla., for the aged; Mooseheart, Ill., for widows & orphans). In 1933 he was one of five acquitted...
Elected to the post of chorister with 174 ballots, Stedman, of Takoma Park, D.C., and Kirkland House, is president of the Glee Club in his fourth year on it. Murphy, of Aurora, Ill., and Lowell House, received 178 votes to become orator. A Senior Phi Beta Kappa, he has won the Coolidge Prize twice...