Word: conn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, New Haven and Hartford tracks near Newington, Conn, last week stood a work train with a power shovel mounted on a flat car. In the shovel's cab was Operator Burrell Wilhelm. His foot slipped and he fell against a control lever. At that moment a Montreal-Washington express, full of people who had gone to Canada to see the King and Queen of England, shot down the track. Burrell Wilhelm's cab swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open...
Since his retirement Newspaperman Pegler has been living in Madison, Conn, and writing (on a double-keyboard Smith-Premier typewriter he acquired in 1893) a book of reminiscences tentatively entitled 50,000 Deadlines. His language, both written and spoken, reveals the origin of his son Westbrook's self-consciously polysyllabic style. Arthur Pegler finds people parsimonious instead of stingy, takes a libation in preference to a drink. He speaks of a publisher he once worked for as "that ineffable screw...
...Edward W. Fox, assistant in History at Harvard, of Cambridge, Mass.; Hans W. Gatzke 1G, of Krefold, Germany; James E. Gunckel, Oxford, O., now graduate student at Miami University; Ralph S. Henderson now teaching at MacJannet Country Day School, St. Cloud, France; Henry R. Hope 1G, of Darien, Conn.; Andrew O. Jaszi 1G, of Oberlin, O.; Milan W. Jerabek, of Minneapolis, Minn., now teaching at University of Minnesota; Jean E. Jones, 1G, of Wichita, Kans...
Died. Jonathan Edmund Browning, 80, famed gunsmith; in New Haven, Conn. Father Jonathan Browning was an Iowa gunsmith, who founded Browning Arms Co. in Ogden, Utah (1851). Brother John invented many firearms. Jonathan Edmund constructed the models...
...Hartford, Conn., the House of Representatives took a vote on confirming seven nominations. When the ballot box was opened, among the ballots were found one penny, one stewed prune...