Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Franklin Roosevelt did not let a critical Congressional situation keep him from going fishing off Florida. Last week he had another fishing appointment aboard Vincent Astor's Nourmahal but failed to depart as scheduled. His old friend, intimate adviser and No. 1 secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, lay critically ill in his bedroom on the northwest corner of the White House's second floor. The 64-year-old ex-newshawk was being kept alive by oxygen and drugs in spite of heart disease, pleurisy and asthma. "Critical," "grave," "very critical," "steadily failing strength" told the story...
...President set March 24 as the date of his departure for what has become his annual spring fishing trip in Florida waters with Vincent Astor on the Nourmahal. Before sailing from Miami he is scheduled to meet the honeymooning Duke & Duchess of Kent...
...South End ragamuffins picketed the annual show of Boston's swank Vincent Club with placards demanding the "resignation" from the club of Mary Curley, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley and not a Vincent member. Picked up by police, the ragamuffins said that Kermit Roosevelt Jr. and another Harvard freshman hired them as a joke on the clubgirls...
...entre-acte diversions are well up to the standards of the production. The Barfly Quartet of Collins, Vincent, Williams and Hormell sings one or two of the old favorites including an amusing song of tender filial devotion entitled "Don't Swat Mother, 'Cause That's Mean."--a song which we should like to have rendered over the radio every five minutes on Mother's Day; as an antidote. Brannigan, the master prestidigitator, performs his sleight of hand wonders with suave sureness...
Even Georgia's good-natured President Steadman Vincent Sanford, though he was bound to disapprove the riot, felt that there was right on the students' side. Next day, with his approval, a mass meeting in the chapel solemnly voted a boycott on both theatres. Day after that, a delegation of students met with President Sanford, appointed a committee to dicker with the theatre. In the evening an orderly army of 700 marched down to the Palace, refused an offer of a free show from the jittery management, marched back...