Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...every Axis attack only confirmed the fact that Britain's ocean lanes were still open. Its losses for the week were being replaced by the purchase of 19 U. S. freighters, each of 10,000 tons or less. Boasted First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander: "The stream of new ships is now coming steadily in from the yards. . . . Great convoys of food, raw materials, arms and men . . . sailed and arrived with clockwork regularity. . . . We cannot be beaten...
...music at uptown Café Society was nothing new to its downtown habitues. Two of the boogie-woogie players, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, pounded two pianos. Teddy Wilson, rippling, inventive jazz pianist, played in his own orchestra and in a trio with Clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and Drummer Yank Porter, who moons, mugs, smiles ecstatically while he beats it out. The Golden Gate Quartet swung spirituals. Sultry, curvesome, Trinidad-born Hazel Scott, who was trained by a teacher from Manhattan's crack Juilliard School, played Bach and Liszt on the piano, first straight, then hot. The authentic afflatus...
When Burton became mayor of Cleveland in 1935, the city was infested with underworld mobs, riddled with police graft. He appointed young Eliot Ness safety director, started a clean-up which had spectacular results. One racketeer it dredged up was Albert Ruddy, who this week was convicted of shaking down building contractors for thousands of dollars during his 20-year reign as a union tsar. Burton earned for Cleveland, once a city shamed by its record of traffic deaths, the National Safety Award in 1939 and 1940. He turned his attention to public health, and this year Cleveland...
Other awards included: Emerton fellowship to David Spring 2G of Toronto, Ont., Canada. Ralph Sanger Scholarship to Albert Plerce 2G, of Mount Vernon, N. Y. University fellowships to Robert A. Rennie 2G., of Blackstone, Mass.; and David Spring 2G., of Toronto, Ont., Canada. Whiting fellowship to Beverly C. Dunn, Jr., 1G., of Seattle, Wash. Jay Backus Woodworth fellowship to Roy L. Griggs 2G., of Columbia, Mo. George B. Emerson fellowship to Clyde Reed 1G., of Baltimore, Md. Virginia Barrett Gibbs scholarship to Theodore R. Swem 1G., of Baltimore, Md. Virginia Barrett Gibba Scholarship to Theodore R. Swem 1G., of Cedar...
Edward H. Kendall scholarships to Albert W. Arneson, of St. Louis Park, Minnesota; and Charles D. Wiley, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin...