Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams, president of First National Bank of Dallas; Henry Morton Bodfish of Chicago, executive director of U. S. Building & Loan League. In the House, before he was retired by the late Dwight Whitney Morrow in the 1930 Senate contest, Mr. Fort specialized in agricultural legislation, fancied himself as an urban expert on farm problems. Patterned after the Government's land bank system, the Home Loan Board will shortly organize for the task of discounting prime mortgages on small houses...
...sweltering New Orleans Dean Arthur A. Vidrine of L. S. U.'s medical center announced the appointment of Dr. Urban Maes as professor of surgery and chief of the surgical department of L. S. U. Dr. Maes, nationally known cancer expert, has been a member of the Tulane faculty since 1906. Tulanians gasped with astonishment. So did Dr. Emmett Lee Irwin, who had not resigned from the positions to which Dr. Maes was appointed. He immediately announced he would not give up his job without a court fight. Said...
Biggest of all will be the last, with an orchestra of 200, chorus of 1,000, and 1,000 actors, dancers and soloists in a colossal pageant-pantomime. This will be a world premiere, with scenery by Joseph Urban. Who the composer and what the subject. Dr. Damrosch would not tell last week. No shooter of all his fireworks at once, he said: "I shall keep the secret closely locked in my breast until the right time comes...
Object of many an urban stare was the rustic figure of Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma sipping gallons of black coffee, chewing soggy cigar butts. He grew pessimistic about getting the nomination for himself but insisted Oklahoma would vote for Roosevelt only "after frost?and frost down our way don't come until after election...
...large U. S. cities last year 6,725 did away with themselves, a ratio of 20.5 per 100,000 of urban population. Dr. Hoffman figures "not less than 20,000" suicides in the entire country.* The only times that the 20.5 ratio has been exceeded were 1908 (21.5), 1914 (20.9), 1915 (20.8). The lowest rate since...