Word: carls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is still plenty to be learned about all these forces, but that did not prevent Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard from announcing last week that they had discovered a brand-new cosmic particle which the heavens rain upon the earth. It has a negative electrical charge like an electron, but seems to weigh ten times as much and have a thousand times as much energy, easily passing through four Geiger counters, two cloud chambers and seven inches of lead...
First U. S. kindergarten was started in 1856 in Watertown, Wis. by Mrs. Carl Schurz, wife of the famed Thuringian revolutionary who became Lincoln's Minister to Spain, Hayes's Secretary of the Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...
...Omaha's big Municipal Auditorium last December, 1,200 members of the Union Pacific R. R.'s Old Timers' Club (20 years or more with the U. P.) played host at an impressive golden wedding banquet for President Carl Raymond Gray and Mrs. Gray. Also in attendance were 27 top-flight U. S. railroadmen headed by President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, and 150 bigwigs from other businesses. Toastmaster at the banquet was bald-pated William Martin Jeffers, 61, U. P. executive vice president, who last week was named by Chairman William Averell...
...factory at 15. He became president of Kohler Co. in 1905 at 30, has been its active head since. Last week Mr. Kohler, 62, upped himself to the chairmanship, made Brother Herbert Vollrath Kohler his successor. Elected Kohler directors were two sons of Walter Kohler: Robert E., 29, and Carl J., 32. Already on the board were two others: John M., 35, and Walter...
Together will Ward S. Fowler and Carl C. Gardner, Jr., Seniors at Swarthmore and Vanderbilt, Loomis was picked as one of the three outstanding candidates for admission to the local doctor's incubator...