Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of Georgia had to spend $400 for a special chair with a 32½-inch bottom before 300-lb. Legislator Compton O. ("Fat") Baker could be seated, with any degree of freedom, in the House of Representatives...
...spring schedule lists the first race on April 23 with MIT, Princeton, and Rutgers for the Compton Cup. Later races will be held with Navy, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Cornell, and finally Yale...
...Merchants in Compton, Calif, set aside one night exclusively for male Christmas shoppers; in their zeal, some hired foot-tall players to keep women...
...Denis Compton is a British cricketer and a friend of Freddie's. But in the atlas of British sports-South African edition, at least-cricket and pugilism are as far removed as Capetown and Lord's, home pitch of London's swank Marylebone Cricket Club. Last week, as Freddie fought his fight in Johannesburg, Denis-in Capetown to play with the M.C.C. team against South Africa's Western Province Cricket Club-invited him to drop in at Newland's Cricket Pavilion...
Scores of names had already been suggested for their places. Everyone from Chief Justice Fred Vinson to ECA's Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman had been mentioned as a possible replacement for George Marshall. Ex-M.I.T. President Karl Compton suddenly popped into the picture as a possible next Secretary of Defense. As available as Available Jones was Harry Truman's old crony Mon C. Wallgren, who had just lost his job as governor of Washington. And there was even talk of bringing back the old sulphurous, incorruptible Harold Ickes...