Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growers' potatoes going to market. In Maine, No. 1 U. S. potato State, where a 165-lb. barrel last year sold at the warehouse for as little as 10?, some 10,000 carloads were dumped into swamps. This was the situation that led Congress to pass the famed Warren Potato Control...
Reported the Tribunal: "We have seen Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet], Sir Warren Fisher [head of the Civil Service] and Sir Maurice Gwyer [Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury] in the witness box. We unhesitatingly accept their evidence as regards themselves, their subordinates, and those engaged in the civil service generally, including the printers who are employed on this and other work of confidential nature...
Many an important pedagogical name has arisen at Yale during his regime: Economist Edgar Stephenson Furniss, hard-driving Dean of Yale's Graduate School; Economist James Harvey Rogers; Lawyer Walton Hamilton; Historian Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff; Geologist Charles Hyde Warren...
...from September 1: Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History; Frederick B. Deknatel, instructor in Fine Arts and tutor; Wilbur J. Bender, instructor in History and tutor; Theodore Spencer, assistant professor of English; Robert G. Noyes, assistant professor of English and tutor; George K. Zipf, assistant professor of German; Warren K. Seyfert, instructor in education; and Hallowell Davis '18, associate professor of Physiology...
...risk defeat in his home state, but bent on having at least a strong voice in the convention, rallied a few potent cronies of the State's Republican machine and entered a delegation of convention candidates in California's primaries. Nominally pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam, who had been ignored in the Hoover slate. Governor Landon, sticking steadfastly to his pose...