Word: r
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women in Washington tried to scotch the notion that Republican women are rich and always wear orchids. Said Mrs. James R. Arneill of Denver, Republican Clubwoman, of a recent rural meeting: "There wasn't a person there who had ever seen an orchid. They had chrysanthemums, though...
...Jersey, Mayor Frank Haguy nodded approval of Charles Edison, Acting Secretary of the Navy, as Democratic candidate for Governor, okayed Millionaire James H. R. Cromwell for U. S. Senator...
Announced by North Carolina's Governor Clyde R. Hoey as a member in the North Carolina Cape Hatteras National Seashore Commission was Doris Duke Cromwell. Commission's function: To acquire and turn over to the Federal Government the first exclusively national seashore...
...began to loom, widespread signs of pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained the fact that this seemed to be England's war-and most U. S. Catholic churchmen are of Irish origin...
With a stroke of his pen Philadelphia's gaunt Federal Judge George A. Welsh approved P. R. T.'s reorganization plan (under 77-B), merged it with its 15 subsidiaries and 49 underliers into a single $85,000,000 corporation: Philadelphia Transportation...