Word: daniel
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Spanish, which is a pinprick in the seat of the Army's breeches. Another pinprick was violent criticism by the Legislature of the U. S. Army for starting construction of an airport on private property which the Army intended to purchase. The Army's Commander, Major General Daniel Van Voorhis, was refused permission to sit in a pew of the British Legation at an Independence Day service in Panama Cathedral...
Summoning reporters, Plastic Surgeon I. Daniel Shorell (TIME, Aug. 12) announced in Manhattan: "The British press has made urgent inquiry from me within the last 24 hours as to whether I performed a face-lifting operation on the Duchess of Windsor. ... I wish categorically to deny that I performed such an operation in Miami. Furthermore, may I suggest that you of the press accept official announcements of the Duke and Duchess. I was absent from the city to operate on another prominent person-not the Duchess. Furthermore, I shall soon go to the Bahamas on a pleasure trip...
...weary veteran of U. S. railroading is the bankrupt, 108-year-old Erie. In her gilded years she fell in with bad company-flamboyant Jim Fisk, piratical Jay Gould, pious Daniel Drew. Together they manipulated her back and forth from bonanza to bankruptcy, got her known as the "Scarlet Lady of Wall Street." Exhausted, the Erie had collapsed three times by 1895. Then she reformed. Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common...
...Daniel W. Litscher '34, 1203 Hope Street, S. E., Grand Rapids, Michigan...
...Daniel W. Willis, GB '33, Glenn Building, Spartanburg, South Carolina...