Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Lehman carted 17 other Democratic Governors, ten Republicans who had just finished the business of their 31st Annual Governors' Conference at Albany. The Democrats needed comfort, for at the supposedly non-partisan conference such new G. O. P. brooms as Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, John William Bricker of Ohio, had put them on the defensive by hammering at Federal Relief policies (but not at Relief cash...
...scene of the annual Long Island croquet championship, Novelists Charles and Kathleen Norris, whose summer place is virtually built around a croquet court, Poloist John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Social Cynosure Herbert Bayard Swope, who plays very solemn croquet with Broadway celebrities at his Long Island home, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott and the four Marx Brothers. Most of these play according to the Wimbledon Championship rules* and all of them take the game as seriously as Britons their cricket. One of the best croquet experts in the U. S. is Averell Harriman, board chairman of Union Pacific...
When Walt Mason was 48 he had good reason to fear his fate. Small-town newsman with roving feet, he had drunk his way through many a sheet when he went to William Allen White, swore to work hard, not get tight. Pressing grindstone to his nose, he wrote a batch of rhyming prose. Walt Mason's doggerel, couched in slang, hit the syndicates with a bang; rich, respected, worth his salt grew reformed Booze-hoister Walt...
...whose money made the institution what it is today but who for more than a third of a century has been known to Rensselaer men only as "The Builder." Rensselaer's alumni have long speculated about "The Builder's" identity. This month Rensselaer's busy President William Otis Hotchkiss at long last told them. Because he died last January (at 73), his family consented to let it be known that the man who gave Rensselaer five of its buildings and much of its $6,000,000 endowment was a Pittsburgh steelman named John Marshall ("Mar") Lockhart...
...Among them: John A. Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge; William B. Cogswell, founder of Solvay Process Co., (chemical...