Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.) Mervin Grant Filler, college dean (Dickinson ) D.Litt...
...Robert T. Neely, Orville A. Dickinson, opened an orange-juice stand in Manhattan. Each paid in $200. Next year, they opened four more stands, increased the capital stock. But thirsty people did not take kindly to street-corner orangeade. Business lagged. In 1915, Stockholder Dickinson, practically insolvent, transferred his share of stock for a debt cancellation to one Walter L. Titus, through Titus's brother. New-Stockholder Titus, little interested in the money-losing company, "wholly abandoned the enterprise," refused to contribute much-needed additional funds. Soon a new company, Burnee Corp., was formed-consisting of Stockholder Neely...
Died. John Dickinson, 12, of Chicago, grandson of Tart-time Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson; in Chicago; by accidentally hanging himself at play...
Protagonists of unrestricted sex education gave Mrs. Dennett a mass meeting in Manhattan. Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, president of the American Social Hygiene Association, presided. Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson of the New York Academy of Medicine, energetic in maternal health work, resolved that some permanent agency be formed to study and act on sex education, sex literature. The mass meeting approved unanimously, except for Canon William Sheafe Chase of Christ Church, Brooklyn. He, who had abetted the conviction of Mrs. Dennett, sat in the gallery silent, watchful, preparing to continue his denunciation in debate and lecture...
...finals of the wherry races H. C. Dickinson '32 and S. R. Howe '31 took first and second places respectively on the upstream half-mile course. E. A. Renner '30 and Morton Cole '29 captured the novice single event over the same distance, while Dickinson and P. C. Reardon '32 took the medals in the compromise race...