Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago at Marion, Ohio, Mr. Thomas started life as an orthodox Republican. He voted for Taft in 1908. His father was a Presbyterian minister, as was his Welsh-born grandfather before him. In Marion as a boy he used to deliver copies of the Star. Its publisher, Warren Gamaliel Harding, had a hearty way of slapping him on the back and calling him ''Norm." Years later "Norm" Thomas was thoroughly shocked when his old employer actually got into the White House...
...shock-cord crew of ten men stood ready in front of a black-&-white Hailer-Hawk sailplane named Unguentine. In the cockpit sat Warren Edward Eaton, one-time War flyer, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), president of the Soaring Society of America, Inc. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison made a little speech, fired a little pistol. "Walk!" shouted Pilot Eaton to the shock-cord crew. After they had begun to walk, stretching the elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then...
...record was nearly soared by 18-year-old Robert Eaton, nephew of Pilot Warren Eaton, son of Vice President Melvin Eaton of Norwich Pharmacal Co. Robert, who last year piled up more points than his uncle, went for a sail of several miles and turned back. Failing to realize how far he had gone, he passed directly over his original take-off point, landed somewhere else. Had he been aware, he could have made a record for distance-&-return. Flying weather was so good for the first stage of the meet that pilots welcomed two days of doldrums in which...
Died. Howard D. Mannington, 64, henchman of Warren Gamaliel Harding's presidential campaign, lessee of the Ohio Gang's ill-famed "little green house in K Street"; of a lingering illness; in Columbus, Ohio...
...incident of its career was to prove more important than the paper itself. To Girard in 1915, from Manhattan where he had been a reporter on the Socialist Call, went an energetic young Jew named Emanuel Julius. He got a job on the Appeal under its Editor Fred D. Warren, revelled in his new work. But with the approach of the War the Appeal began to lose its audience. Interest in Socialism was becoming unfashionable, and the anti-Catholic Menace, somewhat imitative of the Appeal in format, furnished a brand of hate-reading at once more violent and safer politically...