Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctor diligently studies a patient's chart and then asks the attendant nurse for the patient's pulse rate. Still another surprise is in store. For just as the doctor is about to inject insulin to revive the patient from post-operative shock, in bursts Interne Ferguson to snatch the hypodermic out of his superior's hand, administer his own entirely different treatment...
...orking with Senator Sheppard against Repeal were two onetime Governors, Pat Neff and Dan Moody. Working against them were Governor "Ma" Ferguson arid her husband Jim. The Roosevelt machine functioned with quiet efficiency on orders from Washington and Postmaster General Farley; theme: "The good old doctrine of States' Rights, so dear to the hearts of all Texans." Vice President Garner quit fishing long enough to announce that he was voting...
...Nominee Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky. Fatherless at 8, she went to private school in Manhattan, there met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She was bridesmaid at the Roosevelt-Roosevelt wedding on St. Patrick's Day, 1905. Next year, aged 19, she married Robert Monroe Ferguson, bore him a son and a daughter, went West to homestead in New Mexico. Mr. Ferguson died in 1921 and she married his good friend John Greenway two years later. Mr. Greenway died...
...will have a hard time with The Farm. It starts off with middle-aged Colonel MacDougal who, planning a Paradise patterned after Rousseau, came West from Maryland in the spring of 1815, cleared the woods, raised a family with his fat young wife. One of his daughters married Jamie Ferguson, a huge, serious red-haired Scot, who settled at the Farm because it seemed to suit him, lived on there for the rest of a long and violent life. Jamie Ferguson's daughter Ellen married a great-grandson of the Pennsylvania Dutch van Essens who settled in Midland County...
...Ambassador-at-large Norman Hezekiah Davis; and Evelyn Ames, 23 daughter of Botany Professor Oakes Ames of Harvard; in North Easton, Mass. Married. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), 40, widow of Enrico Caruso; and Dr. Charles Adams Holder, 60, inhabitant of Paris; in Paris. Married. Martha Munro Ferguson. 25, daughter of Arizona's famed, comely Mrs. Isabella Greenway whose glamorous history includes ranching, cattle-raising, copper-mining, acting as bridesmaid for Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, seconding the Roosevelt nomination in Chicago; and Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; at Mrs. Greenway's ranch near...