Word: woodley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the notion of a super-radio which, reaching out into time and space, would overtake receding sound waves, reproduce such historic utterances as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address or Shakespeare's remarks after the opening performance of Hamlet. With more daring than credibility, Playwright, van Druten (Young Woodley) has seized upon the idea of recapturing thoughts expressed in the past as the crux for a dramatic sermon on the wastage of war. A rich and sympathetic husband has provided Naomi Jacklin (Katharine Cornell) with the material to build a mental barricade against her personal War tragedy...
...Prescott of M.I.T., active chairman; Arthur L. Townsend, also of M.I.T., active vice-chairman; and Kirtley F. Mather, of Harvard, secretary. These officers along with Arthur L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of Harvard University, are exerting every influence to make this a smooth and efficient meeting. Last spring Mr. Samuel Woodley, representative of the association from Washington, was here making arrangements for the convention...
Secretary of State Stimson, in love with Washington, will keep his beautiful estate "Woodley," resume his New York law practice...
...there is such hope it is dim today. Year ago, when Japan seized Chinchow. 90 miles from Shanhaikwan, U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson dashed off note after stern note. Last week news of Shanhaikwan's fall was brought to "Woodley," Mr. Stimson's home, just as he was tendering a reception to the diplomatic corps. Over cakes & tea Japan's new fait accompli was discussed-but nothing more...
...morning last week before most Washingtonians had finished breakfast, towering Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the U. S., marched briskly up the front steps of "Woodley," suburban home of Secretary of State Stimson. He was promptly ushered into the study. After brief greetings Sir Ronald handed Statesman Stimson a heavy brown envelope tied with blue cord. Inside, the brawny Briton explained, was another note from His Majesty's Government on War Debts- a note, he estimated, "about as long as the Pickwick Papers." In triple-spaced typewriting it covered 26 foolscaps, on the first of which was embossed...