Word: thornton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the convention only declared: "We stand for racial integrity and while official relations must be maintained, we deplore any social relationship between whites and blacks." Later, as the convention was going home, it was disturbed to hear that President Hoover had appointed as postmaster at Blenheim, Va., one Thornton Nightingale, Negro Republican...
...Bridge of San Luis Rey (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The job of making the artificially connected episodes of Thornton Wilder's fantasy into visual drama has been done well?so well that this picture, unlike most of those based on successful books, will appeal chiefly to people who have read the story. The brightly colored insubstantial characters?the disordered old Marquesa, tormented with love for a daughter who does not like her; the novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died...
Died. Willis W. Thornton, 58, of Akron, Ohio, journalist, onetime president...
...Escaping Senator Connally's sober supervision, Junior set forth to inspect some of New York's 32,000 speakeasies.- He came to no good, bringing up in a police station whence he had to be rescued by his father's secretary, J. L. Thornton, who bustled him to the capital. Senator Heflin awaited his boy's homecoming on the station platform. Instead of "hell," he, a fond parent, gave his prodigal a full-bosomed embrace and loving forgiveness. The reconciliation was interrupted when Senator Heflin demanded, but failed to obtain, the arrest of news cameramen...
...recent and contemporary history of Canadian railroads is found in the careers of Canadian Pacific's Beatty and Canadian National's Thornton. Beatty was born a British citizen; Thornton became one (1916). Both have been honored by the British Crown. Beatty is a King's Counsel; Thornton a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire. Both played football, Beatty at University of Toronto; Thornton at University of Pennsylvania. Beatty was Canadian Pacific President at 41; Thornton president of the Canadian National Railroad at 41. Both came from railroad offices, not from railroad tracks. Beatty took over...