Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confident that President Roosevelt will oppose it because he is trying to develop export trade. But last fortnight, Raymond Moley, the President's friend and counselor, published as the lead article in his magazine Today a sharply critical analysis of Japan's scrap buying by Ray Tucker, longtime Washington newshawk. Reporter Tucker concluded that Japan's demand for scrap was unmistakably for the purpose of 1) modernizing her army, 2) hoarding steel in case of war, and 3) constructing naval auxiliaries. "The junk piled up in American backyards during five years of depression," wrote he. "is helping...
Charles B. Feibleman '35, secretary of the Council, will act as chairman of the debate, while Tucker Dean '37 and John A. O'Keefe '37 have been named as Crimson alternates. After luncheon at Adams House the speakers for both sides will adjourn to the WNAC studios in Boston...
Backstage in a Chicago theatre, Blue-singer Sophie Tucker, famed as "the last of the red hot mamas," munched a coffee cake and announced that at the age of 47 she had "adopted a grandma," one Blanche Roper, 74-year-old widow of Plainfield, Ill. Said Granddaughter Tucker: "Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have been adopting orphans. Well, I thought I'd go them one better...
...while back, Collier's Tucker used the same term in an article on the Progressive members of our U. S. Senate. This caused several social organizations in New Mexico to write vigorous protests to Collier...
...vard-Yale race was considered the best crew in the U. S. As the athletic import of the race declined, its social prestige increased. Last week more than half of the commissioned yachts in Eastern waters were crowded into the mouth of the Thames. Biggest were boats like Carl Tucker's Migrant (661 tons), Arthur Curtiss James's Aloha (659 tons), Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro (1,333 tons). J. P. Morgan's Corsair (2,181 tons), like Gerard B. Lambert's three-masted schooner Atlantic (303 tons), stayed in the harbor below...