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...Immaculate Politician. The Democratic leaders of New York City's outlying boroughs chose as their candidate one of the most distinguished looking gentlemen in New York City, Grover Aloysius Whalen. His father was Mike Whalen, an Irish contractor who never got very far in the world, but who named his son Grover because the lad was born June 2, 1886, the day that one of New York State's greatest Democratic politicians, Grover Cleveland, was married to Frances Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working...
Dapper Grover Whalen, president of the New York World's Fair scheduled to open on the Flushing Meadows April 30, 1939, stepped aboard the Normandie last week. He was bound for the International Bureau of Expositions in Paris to get his Fair officially recognized. The Bureau consists of 22 nations who got together in 1928, decided that there were too many international fairs, agreed to sanction only one a year. The U. S. is not a member of the Bureau and Mr. Whalen's visit at this time is only a matter of form, but the Bureau...
...Woman Wise" gives a new slant on the newspaper business. A sports editor (Michael Whalen) grafts a percentage from fight promoters on the threat that he will give them no publicity in his paper. Despite this highly improbable theme, things move along rapidly and in a highly entertaining fashion...
Paired with Whalen in the sports department is Rochelle Hudson, the daughter of a former fistic champion, who boasts a mean right book--undoubtedly hereditary. This she uses to advantage against her boss, against "the other woman", and in sobering drunks. Yet with it all she retains much of her ingenuous charm and would appear to be a welcome addition to the sports department of any newspaper--this one anyway...
...last word in Hollywood comic invention is a shot of Whalen attired in a donkey's head and Hudson crowned with an admiral's hat riding home in a milk wagon early in the morning. Squeezed in behind them is an enthusiastic three piece orchestra and a crooner. This will either strike you as the funniest bit of farce in recent months or the stupidest. At any rate, it is extraordinary...