Word: mcelroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Roewer, Building Commissioner, George McElroy, Acting Deputy Commissioner of Housing and Sanitation, and Harold F. Kelleg of the Boston Housing Authority are to be the speakers. A question period led by Calvin H. Yuill, head of the Housing Association of Metropolitan Boston, will follow the talks...
...bicycle era and red flannel underwear, but Miss Skinner almost atones for these commonplaces by the varied distinction of her acting. Not only does she play Edna at crucial stages of her life, she impersonates seven other characters besides. Broadly caricatured and really funny is her dowager Dolly McElroy, millionaire wife of a Chicago meat packer, who welcomes Edna's husband into pre-War society among potted palms and ottomans. As Edna's sister on the deck of the doomed excursion boat, Eastland, Miss Skinner is at her best. Although the only stage effect is a swaying rail...
...enthusiastic about their meters. Dallas, for example, gets about $140,000 yearly from her 1,500, considers they have "solved our parking problems." But not all cities are so satisfied. Topeka. Mobile, Salt Lake City and six other cities installed, then removed meters. Last week City Manager H. F. McElroy of Kansas City, Mo., which has 1,400 meters, snapped: "The meters solve none of the parking problems." In Alabama, where 500 meters were installed in Birmingham last September, motorists took the case to the Supreme Court, which outlawed meters as "an unauthorized exercise of the taxing power...
...University of Texas eight years ago, 19-year-old Nolte McElroy bent down to crawl through a set of bedsprings to which city light wires had been connected. An excited, giggling crowd of Delta Kappa Epsilons were numbed into silence when Pledge McElroy fainted from shock, died 15 minutes later...
Through the loudspeakers a voice announced that President Conant had consulted a meteorologist who told him that the rain would last only half an hour. Down pounded the mace of Sheriff John McElroy of Middlesex County as it must to open any Harvard ceremony, and by the time Latin Professor Edward Kennard Rand had finished his Salutary Oration and History Professor Samuel Eliot Morison had begun on ''The Early History of Harvard'' the rain had indeed stopped...