Word: bonner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case against the American dates back three years to a Senate investigation of the Federal Power Commission. Insurgent Senators charged the executive secretary of the Commission, Frank E. Bonner, with partiality to power companies. Also under fire was the Commission's chief clerk, W. Frank Griffith. During the rumpus an elderly file clerk, Mrs. Minnie L. Ward, accused Chief Clerk Griffith of tampering her files. When he refused to leave her office she pelted him with eggs...
...been called to lead the Ethiopian out of darkness. I sent the President 30 messages. He hath the program but he don't seem to understand it,& Gilbert F. Bonner, a big black Southern Negro kept insisting to White House attaches as he camped outside President Hoover's office door. A "prophet of doom," Bonner wore an old Army uniform (he used to be a quartermaster sergeant), with a blue cheesecloth turban on his head. Small gilt crucifixes dangled from every blouse pocket. White House guards let him sit day after day in the lobby, vainly waiting...
Byers did not know that his case was hopeless until two weeks ago. Autopsy last week revealed that he had only six teeth left. Both jaws were rotted. His brain was abscessed. Distributed through his bones, calculated Dr. Frederick Bonner Flinn of Columbia University, were 36 micrograms of radium. Ten micrograms is a fatal quantity...
Kirtland defeated Leverett, 4-1; A. E. Evans '33 (K) defeated R. C. Vose 3-0; A. R. Bonner '34(K) defeated C. F. Webber (Lev) 8-1 G. F. Webber '88 (Lev) defeated W. G. Neleom (K), 3-2; E. A. L. Janfwen '32 (K) defeated Andrew Marshall. Jr. '34 (Lev) 3-0 W. V. Brown Tutor (K) defeated H. A. Stone...
...story of an Arctic egg hunt reached Pittsburgh last week. Month ago George Miksch Sutton, onetime Pennsylvania game commissioner, and John Bonner Semple, retired Sewickley, Pa. manufacturer of Navy ordnance* were 40 mi. north of Churchill on the western shore of Hudson's Bay. With them were Olin S. Pettingill of Bowdoin College and Bert Lloyd, Saskatchewan ornithologist. They were collecting birds, plants and insects. Competing with them was a party of the Canadian Ornithological Society. Hope of both groups was to be the first to find eggs of a Harris's sparrow...