Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Superintendent Willard Walcott Beatty, who has built up Bronxville's school system, could be thankful for the election result. If it had gone otherwise, Mr. Beatty would indeed have been embarrassed because he is president of the Progressive Education Association and that lusty young organization is currently nursing its biggest project...
...paper clipper was ex-Governor Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Before primary time arrived "The Man" rushed back to Mississippi, proposed a 27-point platform for the beatification of Mississippi, attacked the record of Senator Stephens particularly because he had almost voted to give a Republican, Dr. Willard Thorp, a $9,000 job as an expert in the Department of Commerce (TIME, Oct. 1). Mr. Bilbo made great capital of that near sin, declared that such jobs were for good Democrats, that if Senator Stephens should lose his seat to Bilbo, The Man would see that even Stephens, rather than...
Richard Cobb '36 (A) defeated Stephen H. Tyng '35 (L), 3-1; Lockwood Merriman '35 (L) defeated Charles McL. Hadley, Jr. '35 (A), 3-2; J. Moore Hill, II '36 (A) defeated Brown (L), 3-0; Willard H. Griffin '37 (L) defeated Dean Bender (A), 3-2; Hutchinson (A) defeated Arnold M. Ross...
...evening of March 1, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur left the White House, stepped into his carriage, rolled around to Washington's Willard Hotel. There that New York dandy witnessed the wedding of Colorado's U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor and Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe. Diplomats and Congressmen were present. The beauteous young bride wore a pearl necklace for which the groom had that morning paid a fortune; it had, the guests were told, been part of the jewelry pawned by Queen Isabella to finance Christopher Columbus. The air was loud with...
...trainer, Chesley Harris, insisted that his bitch had a good chance to win two years running. The most famed woman pointer fancier in the U. S., Mrs. Nina Billingslea of Tulsa, Okla., had a good bitch entered, Spunky Creek Joann. Snow and sleet delayed the start three days, pleased Willard Gay of Meriden, Conn., who had brought his family 1,000 miles to see what happened. Two setters disgraced themselves on the same day: W. D. Albright's Silvermont which was taken up after two hours and Carl Dufield's white- &orange Buddy D. which scampered...