Word: lates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers reached into Congress and hired two U. S. employes as "Washington correspondents." They were Edward Nelson Dingley, 68, white-haired tariff expert on the payroll of the Senate Finance Committee; and Clayton Moore, clerk of the House Ways & Means Committee. Expert Dingley is the son of the late Nelson Dingley Jr., for 18 years a representative from Maine and chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee which framed the Tariff Act of 1897 that bears his name.* Clerk Moore is the son of Joseph Hampton Moore, onetime Mayor of Philadelphia. Mr. Dingley got $1,541, Mr. Moore...
...Moore, sightly, luxuriating Metropolitan Opera soprano, went last week to Jellico, Tenn., to sing "I Love You Truly" and "At Dawning" at her sister Emily's wedding. On the way she confided to pressmen that in her sound film debut, recently arranged for, she would appear as the late, great, prudish Jenny Lind. Her second picture will probably be The Merry Widow, made jointly with Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett...
...late Poet James Whitcomb Riley, said Miss Maude Wells, his one-time stenographer: "Sometimes Riley would go for a year or two without touching liquor. When he did start to drink, he drank until his system was satisfied, however. Drinking was a family curse that ran back for generations...
...From Stroudsburg, Pa., Dr. George S. Travis, 50, motored late at night through heavy snow to a gunshot-wounded patient. The car stalled a mile from the patient's house. Dr. Travis proceeded afoot. Sleepy, cold, exhausted, he tottered into a snow bed, died...
Massive and magnificent of mien is Gates McGarrah, 67, of striking resemblance to the late J. P. Morgan Sr. He is a director of such large corporations as American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., a member of practically every tycoon's club in Manhattan...