Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Joseph B. McGrath '44 of Maiden is the chairman of the dance committee, and Brooks M. Heath '44 of Auburndale and Andrew W. Murphy '48 are members...
Died. Henry Horner, 61, Governor of Illinois; of nephritis, after long sickness; in Winnetka, Ill. Chicago-born son of one Solomon A. Levy, he was four when his parents separated; he and his mother took her maiden name. After 18 years' judgeship in Cook County Probate Court, he ran for Governor in 1932, sponsored by the late Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, whose subsequent assassination left Horner politically free. Governor ever since, he agreed with the Kelly-Nash machine only on Term III. A bachelor, he found time to become an authority on Lincoln...
Rubber Reserve Co., created last month by RFC, has the job of buying a 100,000-to-150,000-ton defense stockpile of rubber before Christmas at 18? to 20? a lb. Last week Rubber Reserve Co. made its maiden venture into the tough and jumpy spot-rubber market. The price moved forward to 20? and R. R. C., squealing, withdrew...
...week. His was a critical audience-blunt Yoshizawa of the American Division, cross-eyed Spokesman Suma, dyspeptic middle-aged clerks and angry youngsters who think Japan should expand all the way to the Suez Canal-who had seen Foreign Ministers come & go like rainstorms. They expected thunder in this maiden speech...
Loudest, firmest protester was Boston's eight-month-old Society for Sanity in Art (youngest branch of Chicago's famed organization of similar name), which found an opportunity for its maiden crusade. Last week, from the black-upholstered fastness of her Victorian apartment, the Society's old-maid president, Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, said: "[The Picasso show] is an exhibition of crazy stuff. People who went to the show flocked to join the Society for Sanity in Art." She affirmed the Society's answer to Picasso's challenge: a rival exhibition demonstrating sane...