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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy Charles Edison last week announced the names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Names | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quizzical Quiz | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...raced twice around the wicked slalom turns in the Ski Bowl on neighboring Tom, Dick and Harry Mountain in 2:44.6 for the best combined score of all, open or amateur. By far the best of the women in the combined score was graceful, 26-year-old Betty Woolsey of Connecticut, captain of the women's team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Mt. Hood | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...display includes a complete set of proofs of "Ulysses," as corrected by the author; the first serialized publication of "Ulysses," and several first editions of the work. The united States government forbade publication of "Ulysses" in this country until it was permitted by judge John M. Woolsey's decree, which is shown along with the other documents about "Ulysses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

Died. Robert Woolsey, 49, of the cinema comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey (Rio Rita, The Cuckoos, Half Shot at Sunrise); of kidney disease; at Malibu Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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