Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death last week took from the Senate a quiet, kindly, able Southern judge, baggy-kneed, baggy-faced Marvel Mills Logan (TIME, Oct. 9). In jigtime the Senate this week got as his successor the nearest thing to Huey Long since the Kingfish was shot to death...
Secretary Woodring therefore ordered 67,500 troops into Southern States this winter for a long period of intensive training-largest peacetime concentration in history of the regular army. Officers will be able to whip newly streamlined, mobile divisions* into coordinated units educated to the new theories of combat...
...Vice-Presidents of the Alumni Association, to serve three years, were Arthur W. Page '05, of New York, and Richard C. Floyd '11, of Brookline, Mass. Mr. Page is Vice-President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Southern Education Foundation, Teachers College, N. Y., and Bennington College. Mr. Floyd, a manufacturer is Vice-President of Bird and Son, and for several years has been President of the Varsity Club...
...Southern Colonies from Centre almost did it again, bowing by a 9-6 score to the always powerful, not always so alert Army team. Only 5,000 people turned out to watch what was expected to be a Cadet walkaway, but the Academy eleven booted away countless scoring opportunities in one of its poorest showings in recent years...
Natural Sham. A typical compilation of 1939 magazine-verse is Sara Henderson Hay's This My Letter. Its author herself is typical of the many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree...