Word: crawfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crawford Long's claim set the date of his discovery in the year 1842 there is no evidence that ether was used to relieve the pain of wounded soldiers during the first year of the war with Mexico as much as four years later...
Died. John Crawford Anderson, 76, Chief Justice of Alabama; of a heart attack; in Montgomery, Ala. Lone dissenter on the Alabama Supreme Court in the Scottsboro Case, he doubted that the defendants had received a fair trial...
...last week 10,000 Southerners poured into the little town of Jefferson in northern Georgia. Most of them went to see Postmaster General Jim Farley, posting through the South on one of his periodic junkets (see p. 15). Officially, they went to honor Jefferson's Crawford Williamson Long, first doctor to operate under ether, 98 years ago. At noon, on the village square, the Postmaster General sold a sheaf of new two-cent stamps, bearing the bearded countenance of Dr. Long, to the only survivor of his twelve children-his aged daughter, Mrs. Eugenia Long Harper...
Born. To Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 31, and Mary Lee Epling Fairbanks, 29, his second wife (first: Joan Crawford): their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...
Divorced. Actor Franchot Tone,34; by Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 32, who in 1934 divorced Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; after sentimental get-togethers while the final decree was pending; in Los Angeles...