Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University officials angrily refused to permit the White House press party to set up telegraph wires on the spot. So poor were the arrangements that some reporters accompanying the president could not squeeze into the hall. Veteran presidential companies can't recall when a chief executive was so thorough rebuffed as FDR was at his alma mater. In his manner and in his cart address joshing Harvard for its dislike of democratic presidents Mr. Roosevelt gave...
...party scramble began last summer when 75-year-old George William Norris. veteran of ten years in the House and 24 in the Senate, announced his desire for retirement. Relieved were Nebraska's regular Republicans to be thus rid of a man who, Republican in name only, had returned from Washington every six years to snatch their Senatorial nomination, disrupt their party ranks. Quickly and quietly they marshaled their forces, gave the Senatorial nomination to a longtime 100% Republican Representative, Robert G. Simmons, who had lost his House seat in the 1932 Democratic landslide...
...work on the football team, record mended him to the mercies of the world. He were instead to Harvard for a law degree. He came to the northwest in r909 and has remained in Minneapea long enough to be identified with many a prosperous business enterprise. A war veteran, he has among opportunity in the Two Cities to concern himself at first hand with a favorite project of the American Bar Association-raise to some dignity the just of. American courts as curbing the shysters...
...returned from Siberia a hero and re-entered Carnegie Tech. He was resuming the study of metallurgical engineering which he had abandoned to join the army. He carried a lump on his head where a pistol butt wielded by a Bolshevik had landed. Vacationing from College three years later, Veteran Cartright collapsed. On recovering consciousness he learned that he was incurably blind and deaf...
Champion Winthrop made a good showing yesterday, but not many of last year's winners are still in the aggregation, with the exception of Chester W. MacArthur '37; veteran of many battles...