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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HOLMES OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE-M. A. DeWolfe Howe-Oxford Universify Press...
Presiding at the meeting was Robert L. Green '39 acting in his position as Second Marshal while Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus served as usual in his position as honorary judge. The judges were Mr. Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, Mr. William James and Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman collection of contemporary journalism...
...offense dynamo, Captain Jim Feeley, and Goalie Wes Goding on the first all star team. Budge Miller, Princeton defense man, completes the lineup. QUAD LEAGUE ALL STARS First Team Second Team Harding (H) lw Walsh (D) Foster (D) c Wyer (P) Patrick (H) rw Sullivan (D) Miller (P) ld Howe (Y) Feeley (D) rd Kite (Y) Goding (D) g Freedley (H) Alternates -- Bordley (P), Burr (Y), Jameson...
Quiet by nature, unobtrusive by preference, Robert Fechner had 'hardly taken hold at CCC before he got into a first-class stink. The Affair of the Toilet Kits in June 1933 concerned a persuasive salesman who got Louis Howe to get Robert Fechner to pay an outrageous price for 200,000 handybags. Although Franklin Roosevelt himself had casually endorsed the salesman, loyal Mr. Fechner took the blows from Congress. That body in 1937 repaid him by cutting his $12,000 salary to $10,000. (Mrs. Norton's bill would restore...
Potato Bug. Franklin Roosevelt and his late, trusted Secretary Louis McHenry Howe knew Robert Fechner in World War days when he represented his machinists' union in negotiations with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt. Their friendship continued, and on his 57th birthday (March 22, 1933) Mr. Fechner got a telephone call from Louis Howe suggesting a quick trip to Washington. Tied up with union business and unaware that CCC legislation had been introduced, he put off going for a week. When he did visit the White House, he saw there the original (and largely unchanged) chart...