Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jamie Ferguson fled Scotland when the Stuart cause brought disaster on its adherents. He joined an uncle in Suncook in the Province of New Hampshire, learned woodcraft under old Toby, an Indian. Successful in the lumber trade, he married Dorcas Drew, lived to regret it. After he joined the Rangers of his friend, Captain Robert Rogers, Jamie fought in campaigns around Lake Champlain and Ticonderoga, while Dorcas dallied with his intriguing, traitorous Cousin Hubert, a British officer. Jamie hardly minded, but when Hubert's dark eye fell upon Purity Stiles, whom Jamie now loved, that was a different matter...
...Union is not alone to be congratulated. With the possible exception of his recent appointment of Professor Ferguson to the key post of Faculty Dean, President Conant has done nothing that will do more to endear him to the doubting liberals in the college world than his gesture of good will to the Union...
...Andrew's, the ruggers lacked the punch of the Princeton game. Hill Waters and Have Colwell chalked up the Crimson six points with a try apiece, to Wheeler tailed a try for St. Andrew's. HARVARD PRINCETON Colwell, fb fb, Danial Cook, rw rw, Newbold Grace, cw cw, Ferguson Waters cw cw, Hindley Kenigsberg, lw lw, Boyd Goff, hb hb, Richardson Osgood, hb hb, Jesser Strong, f f, Bertram Dibble, f f,Cathless Counihan, f f,Pyne Martin, f f, Holsapple Ditz,f f,Forsch Harkness, f f, Bickle Hardenbergh,f f, Chamberlain Riggs, f f, Cook Score-Harvard...
...prides of Hartford, Conn. is Hartford Electric Light Co., nationally known as a model utility. It has no truck with holding companies, has only common stock (few bonds), has constantly slashed its rates. Head of this white sheep of the utility industry has long been genial old Samuel Ferguson, who four years ago moved up to chairman, turned over the presidency to handsome, Danish-born Viggo E. Bird. Last week, to Hartford's openmouthed horror, Viggo Bird turned out to be an embezzler...
This was the closest scandal had ever come to Hartford Electric Light Co. and it went no further. Viggo Bird resigned at once and Samuel Ferguson resumed the presidency, announced that the embezzlement did not involve the utility but New London Northern R. R. Co., of which Viggo Bird was treasurer...