Word: vedder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months prior to the opening, more than 100 actors, including such local celebrities as Octogenarian Ella H. Goodrich, who does Whistler's Mother, and ebony-skinned Janitor Felix Nelson (Vedder's The African Sentinel), rehearse their tableaux as religiously as any Oberammergau Passion Player. This year, with the Assistance League of nearby Santa Ana offering $200 in art prizes, and the buildup of the local Chamber of Commerce corralling 1,500 spectators into every performance, The Festival of Arts at last got on a paying basis. Jubilant Director Ropp hoped to net $4,000, looked forward...
Help Wanted. On his way to the convention, A. B. A. President Robert Vedder Fleming of Washington's Riggs Bank had stopped off in Spokane, Wash, long enough to get himself named "Chief Black Hawk" by the Flathead Indians. This warlike title he bore gracefully. Mr. Fleming, amiable and solid as he is jolly, reminded the bankers that during the year Congress and the Administration had given A. B. A. "courteous and attentive consideration." Banks had been excluded from the provisions of the law taxing undistributed earnings. "Splendid cooperation" had been received from the Government in a survey aimed...
...Elected Bishop of Vermont's 6,000 Episcopal communicants was Rev. Dr. Vedder Van Dyck, vice Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton who was offered the post (TIME, Aug. 12) but declined. Chunky, pink-faced Dr. Van Dyck, 46, has been rector of St. Paul's in Burlington since...
Last week the Hoover conservation policy received a severe legal jolt when Associate Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that Secretary Wilbur had exceeded his authority under the Act of 1920. Two oilmen, Richard D. Vedder of California and Roy C. Barton of New Mexico, had asked Secretary Wilbur for a prospecting permit on U. S. lands. Secretary Wilbur had refused to receive their application. They sued for an order (mandamus) compelling him to consider their application as the law required...