Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alien Property Custodian after World War I, Francis P. Garvan sold seized German chemical patents to Chemical Foundation, Inc. As president of the Foundation he leased the processes to the industry. Last week the presidency of the foundation, vacant since his death two years ago, was filled again. His successor: 27-year-old lawyer and onetime Yale football manager, Francis P. Garvan...
Barrington pictured Lord Haw-Haw as "rather like P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster . . . with a receding chin, a questing nose, thin, yellow hair brushed back, a monocle, a vacant eye, a gardenia in his buttonhole." Fancying a creature like this at the Zeesen mike, Britons nowadays consider it a great gag when Lord Haw-Haw says, sententiously: "Britain, your naval prestige is destroyed. We Germans now command the seas. A submarine can dive many times; a capital ship only once...
Once a conservative who believed that democracy had been a dismal failure, Editor Agar swung leftward with Roosevelt. His recent books are pious, eloquent, Democratic; his syndicated column, Time and Tide, has a resolutely New Deal aura. He takes his seat in Marse Henry's vacant office next January, at the close of a current lecture tour...
Coach Jack Carr is starting a newcomer, Jim Davidge, at right fullback in the position left vacant by Ives. Davidge will have a big job on his hands, but he was improved rapidly this year, and Carr is depending...
Last week, General Sosnokowski had both honor and reward. The President-in-exile, Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, successor to President Moscicki, became seriously ill, named General Sosnokowski as his successor "in case the post should become vacant before the conclusion of peace...