Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of patronesses, to which further additions may be made, includes: Mesdames L. M. Ferguson, Alexander Whiteside, James M. Hunnewell, John H. Paine, W. L. H. Lothrop, Charles Walcott, Frederic Winthrop, Paul Killiam, Thomas N. Perkins, Andrew J. Peters, Alvin F. Sortwell, Charles J. Bullock, Richard Lawrence, Godfrey L. Cabot, Richard P. Waters, Atherton Noyes, Thomas B. Gannett, R. W. Bird, Samuel D. Warren, Conrad P. Hathaway, James B. Ayer, Oakes Ames, F. J. O. Alsop, Campbell Bosson...
...Last week in Connecticut Albert Levitt, onetime Columbia University professor, now a special assistant in the U. S. Attorney General's office, charged in a debate with Samuel Ferguson, chairman of Connecticut Power and President of Hartford Electric Light, that the two companies had earned $8,000,000 excess profits in the last five years, offered to go to jail for five years if he could not prove it in the Supreme Court...
...stage it was a sparkling uncut gem, on the screen the edges have been nicely polished off, but the lustre has lost a little of its brilliance. This is most obvious in the difference between the interpretations of Alexander Kirkland and Clark Gable of the young interne, Dr. Ferguson. It was through the shoddy places in Kirkland's portrayal that the sincerity of his performance stood out. Gable brings to the movies a capable, even performance, but seems to lose a little of that quality which made the play so compelling...
...Hochberg, played splendidly by Jean Hersholt, is the motive force behind the story. He has sacrificed everything honestly to make himself a great doctor. It is he who shows young Ferguson the relation between his duty to the medical profession and his personal happiness. Myrna Loy and Elizabeth Allan are capable, but since they are only foils in the story, have little chance to shine...
...become solid citizens, a few to win renown. Most widely famed is Footballer Harold ("Red"') Grange. But Sculptor Lorado Taft is an alumnus, and so are Litterateurs Carl and Mark Van Doren, Motormaker Ray Austin Graham, Sanitary Engineer Arthur Newell Talbot, onetime (1928-32) U. S. Senator Otis Ferguson Glenn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's onetime (1923-31) President Samuel Wesley Stratton. The late great Stuart Pratt Sherman taught English at Illinois for 17 years...