Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They are James P. Kranz Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee, chairman; Charles B. Arendall Jr., Mobile, Alabama; Benjamin C. Chester, Central Falls, Rhode Island; John Corcoran, Pittsburgh; Robert C. Creel, Cambridge; John H. Ferguson, Oklahoma City; Paul Fitting, Nutley, New Jersey; Samuel Gordon, Brooklyn, New York; William P. Gray, Glendale, California; Willard P. Henkelman, Seranton, Pennsylvania; Samuel L. Jashnoff, Far Rockaway, Long Island; Hugh R. Jones, New Hartford, New York; Thomas W. Keesee Jr. Helena, Arkansas; William W. Kirkpatrick, Chappaqua, New York, William H. Pock Jr., Glen Ridge, New Jersey, John O. Rhome, West Allenhurst, New Jersey; and Harold A. Unterberg...
Still the only U. S. citizen to come down with cholera in Shanghai was H. A. Ferguson of Buffalo. No cholera statistics were available from Chinese sections of Shanghai but in the French Concession alone there were 450 cases, with cholera-afflicted foreigners observed to succumb more rapidly than Chinese. Japanese authorities admitted 200 of their soldiers were down with cholera at Paoshan, and the Chicago Daily News's unsensational Reginald Sweetland cabled: "Swarms of cholera flies stream into homes, restaurants and offices, and [Shanghai] health officials feel that only a sudden change of weather with heavy showers...
...Walter Ferguson learned about the newspaper business when she went, as a bride, to Cherokee, Okla., where she helped her young husband run the weekly Republican. She learned about the home when three rapidly growing children came to the Fergusons. She combined the fruits of both experiences to write a column, "From a Woman's Viewpoint," which has been a successful feature in the Scripps-Howard dailies for more than a decade. Her column is a spirited, folksy discussion of anything that pops into her mind, from jelly-making to the problems of business girls...
Last week Mrs. Ferguson learned how a son feels about having a columnist in the family. Benton Ferguson, now 27, in the advertising department of Scripps-Howard's Fort Worth Press, wrote for his paper an intimate sketch of his mother which ran alongside her column...
Eunice left her school in Sneedville this spring when Teacher Wade Ferguson switched her for "jumping around." What Teacher Ferguson had to contend with was revealed last week by Eunice's father-in-law, Nick Johns, who turned up in Treadway to inquire about the possibilities of an annulment. He snorted: "She can't learn nothin' in school and she can't learn nothin' at home. I tried to learn her at home, but she don't even know her ABC's. She can't count...