Word: conway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Americans learned in school that during the dark winter at Valley Forge, Washington was the near-victim of a cabal cooked up by Irish Expatriate and French General Thomas Conway, by Dr. Benjamin Rush, by the Adams cousins. Sam & John. Purpose of the plot was to replace Washington by General Horatio Gates. Now Historian Knollenberg reviews the documents to conclude that no such cabal ever existed, that the long-lived rumor was due in part to Washington's touchiness, dictatorial arrogance, "disingenuousness," skill at passing the buck for his own mistakes. In part it was due to wild...
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...North Conway a new and attractive building, a chalet-type ski barracks has been erected on the site of the Sunset inn main building which was destroyed by fire last June. This is part of the Eastern Slope...
...David Coolidge, Dean Frederick M. Feiker of George Washington University School of Engineering, Manhattan Patent Lawyer (and Theatre Guild director) Lawrence Langner, Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s Vice President Thomas Midgley, Director Watson Davis of Science Service, Engineering Dean Webster N. Jones of Carnegie Tech, U. S. Patent Commissioner Conway Coe. Absent from the first meeting were Industrialist George Baekeland (Bakelite Corp.) and Dr. Orville Wright, once rated a crackpot tried & true...
...Said Conway Coe when the council had finished organization, decided to meet again later: "We expect to get about 100,000 inventions a year. If ten of them prove to be useful . . . the idea will have been very much worthwhile. There's no such thing as a crackpot inventor. Edison might have been the crackpot of the century. . . . But his stuff clicked...