Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shipping Board (seven men) debated heatedly. Last week, they ceased debate, voted. The three members of the Board who compose the sale committee (Commissioners Lissner, Haney, Hill) voted to accept the Dollar bid. Rear Admiral Benson voted No; E. C. Plummer, Vice Chairman, voted No; Mr. Frederick I. Thompson, Commissioner, voted No. It was up to T. V. O'C., the Chairman?genial, smiling Mr. O'Connor. He voted Yes. A telegram sped off to the old man in San Fran- cisco. He grinned happily. At Washington, members of the Shipping Board could hardly speak to one another. Debate began...
...Maugham took a medical degree at Heidelberg, practiced for a while in the slums of London. Now 50, black-eyed, broad-framed, diffident, he is a restless traveler. His most famed novel, Of Human Bondage, a best seller ten years ago, has had a steady sale ever since. Miss Thompson, a short story of his, was made into a play?Rain?with startling results. His dramas, however, are potboilers. His other novels, short-story collections : The Moon and Sixpence, The Trembling of a Leaf, The Hero, Mrs. Craddock, Liza of Lambeth, On a Chinese Screen...
Engaged. Ernest du Pont, Wilmington powder man, to Miss Anne Thompson, Johns Hopkins Hospital nurse, who attended him in a recent illness. Divorced two years ago, he has four children, the eldest...
...CRIMSON play-reviewing contest, which was distinguished by more brilliant writing than was offered in the preceding contests. He will receive today a check for $25. Honorable mention has been given reviews written by P. W. Claflin '27, R. L. Hapgood '25, E. B. Spalding '26, W. H. Thompson '25, and R. A. Warner...
...plan of classification of the awards is similar to that applied to the 1924 awards, under which a gold medal was given to the national Vigilance Committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs for distinguished services to advertising. Cash prizes were awarded to the J. Walter Thompson Company, to Lever Brothers Company, and to Barton, Durstine, and Osborn for the campaign of the General Motors Company and of R. H. Macy Company of New York...