Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finney also has a son. His name is Ronald Tucker Finney, graduated from Cornell in 1921, trained for several years as cashier of his father's bank in Neosho Falls. Two years ago Ronald Finney, 6 ft. tall, plump, glib, goodnatured and a lavish spender by Kansas standards, set up in business for himself. He dealt in bonds. He speculated in commodities. He hired an elaborate suite, partly for use as an office, in Topeka's Jayhawk Hotel. He ran up heavy toll bills telephoning to his brokers...
...Reporter Ray Tucker, wild & wooly go-getter after official malfeasance or social injustice, was never in better form. 'The days of Teapot Dome never compared with these," he reported. And "the question [of the man on the street] heard everywhere around the Capitol is, 'What chance have we got?' " Pitched to a sustained keynote of Wall Street wickedness. Tucker's stories were masterfully written and made exciting reading. Also in the World Telegram, Pinko Heywood Broun surpassed himself with cynical skits about the House of Morgan and its Friends in high places. Apropos the 1929 letter...
...antics. Most of them would bring wives and for those who brought children a nursery had been established. The program was to be scholarly indeed. Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry of Harvard Theological School, first Rhodesman sent abroad from Michigan, would deliver the Swarthmore baccalaureate. English Professor Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, first Rhodesman from West Virginia and now Yale's expert on Marlowe, would give the Phi Beta Kappa address. The Swarthmore commencement address would be delivered by Sir Francis James Wylie. who lately retired as resident host and welcomer to Rhodes Scholars at Oxford (TIME, March...
...Harvard lineup: England, g.; Rogers, cp.; David, p.; Thorndike, 1d.; Rabinowitz, 2d.; Housen, c,; Feins, 2a.;Graziano, 1a.; Owens, oh.; Tucker...
Score--Harvard 13, Boston University 1. Goals--Housen 3, Owens 2, LeRoy 2, Angle 2, Tucker 1, DeWolfe 1, Feins 1, Murphy 1. Referee--S. L. Harson. Time--Two 15-minute quarters, two 8-minute quarters...