Word: charleses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed deputy county attorney in Wichita in 1907, Lawyer McGill made an early reputation by winning every case he brought to trial, then spent two undistinguished decades in criminal law and local politics before he was elected to fill the Senate vacancy left by Hoover Vice President Charles Curtis in...
In residential Ridgewood, N. J., Mayor Frank D. Livermore got tired of seeing pickets of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union (A. F. of L.) trudging up & down in front of the Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to...
Despite officious interference from Philadelphia's jowly Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, whose homicide squad reported "nothing suspicious" in the deaths, scythe-nose Coroner Charles H. Hersch took charge. His investigators compared "The Klondike" with the Black Hole of Calcutta.-* The scene they reconstructed was as horrid as anything ever...
Eoanthropus dawsoni (Piltdown man), of broad forehead, thick bones, human brain case and apelike teeth, who lived in Sussex, England in the early Pleistocene days. Rambling Lawyer Charles Dawson discovered the Piltdown remains in 1912.
In 1859, when Charles Darwin, armed with a mass of scientific facts, suggested that man had an ape ancestor, enthusiastic converts to his theory of evolution immediately pictured a great-grandfather-&-son development of gorilla or chimpanzee into Homo sapiens. Subsequent unearthing of scattered thighbones, skullcaps, jaws and teeth led...