Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With New York City's most turbulent Mayoral election in 20 years only eight days away, last week the semi-final results of the Literary Digest's straw poll stood: Fusion Candidate Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, 217,599; Recovery Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee, 169,715; Tammany's Candidate, Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, 51,562. Undoubtedly Candidate LaGuardia had drawn ahead for a while in the preceding fortnight but other, more up-to-date straw-voting persuaded Wall Street betters to reinstate McKee last week-end as the favorite at even money, with odds against LaGuardia...
...daughter, their first child; in New Haven, Conn. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Cynthia. Divorced. "Prince" David Mdivani, eldest of Russia's famed "Marrying Mdivanis"; by Mae Murray, onetime cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: extreme cruelty, unreasonable jealousy, hos tility toward her guests. Awarded. To Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body) : the Roosevelt Medal "for distinguished service." To the late John Ripley Freeman (died Oct. 6) : the John Fritz Medal (No. 1 U. S. engineering award), for his pre-eminence "in the fields of hydraulics and water supply, fire insurance economics and analysis of earthquake...
Harvard; England, Nichols, g.; Gummere, Stent, r.f.b.; Stent, Wemple, l.f.b.; Morrill, Streeter, Roosevelt, r.h.b.; Dorman, Kingsley, c.h.b.; Vincent, Dorman, l.h.b.; Willetts, Motley, r.o.f.; Clos, r.i.f.; Manheimer, Willetts, c.f.; Stork, l.i.f.; Baxter, Robbins, l.o.f...
...contrast to the showing of the forward line, which includes three veterans, the halfbacks, all new men on the Varsity, are proving excellent. Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36 and John Dorman '36 are extremely self-possessed and agile in their handling of the ball...
...PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - Vincent Starrett - Macmillan ($2). Mystery-writer Starrett makes readable his really scholarly study of the great sleuth...