Word: talled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...post-War stay in France got him a doctor's degree at the University of Bordeaux. Not until he reached 30 was he ready to begin the career of social work in Ohio and Wisconsin which was eventually to make him the No. 2 U. S. Relief man. a tall, gentle, tweedy, eminently useful citizen, noted for his personal integrity, his whole-souled devotion to his job and to his chief Harry Hopkins. Last week it became Aubrey Williams' duty to see that other U. S. youngsters should not have to follow his own rocky road to success...
...dais not far from Her Majesty was the swart, striking young Emir Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and smoldering-eyed son of that kingdom's tall, ascetic founder and autocratic ruler, His Majesty King Ibn Saud. As usual, the Buckingham presentations were of no significance, but men who know the Near East saw a sign and portent of British prestige in Arabia's great new State as its Crown Prince took his respectful stand near the Queen-Empress...
...Irish liked their last Minister from the U. S., a tall, hard-eyed Montana Baptist named William Wallace McDowell who, after two weeks on the job, dropped dead of a heart attack (TIME, April 16, 1934). Last week the new U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, Alvin Mansfield Owsley, set out for Dublin Castle to present his credentials, not to King George's representative, Governor General Donal Buckley, but to President Eamon de Valera...
...Sangamon County, Ill. where a tall, gaunt Republican lawyer once practiced his profession, another tall Republican lawyer today collects Lincolniana. His name is Benjamin Savage DeBoice. For five years Lawyer DeBoice has served as probate judge in Sangamon County. He helped to send Springfield's ex-Mayor John S. Schnepp to jail for embezzling money from an estate, won a high reputation for strict, conservative decisions governing administrators of estates. To a Springfield trust company which asked his permission to invest the funds of seven estates in U. S. Government bonds-most famed of all conservative investments-he last...
Last week the following was news: Six years ago the New York Stock Exchange, casting about for a bright young assistant secretary, lifted Dean Kirkham Worcester out of the investment department of Farmers Loan & Trust Co. Handsome, moose-tall Dean Worcester, who married a daughter of Novelist Arthur Train, had graduated from Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to become an engineer for New York Telephone Co. As assistant secretary he distinguished himself at the Stock Exchange early in Depression as a crack trouble-shooter and inside man. In 1930 he was made an officer and director of New York...