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...court Prosecutor Vernon Ferguson of Los Angeles, assisted by Prosecutor John J. McMahon of San Francisco, set forth the charges on which he expected to send the defendants to jail. Two years ago, cried Prosecutor Ferguson, Reginald L. Rankin, a onetime Washington lumberman, conceived the idea of a great businesslike abortaria chain to accommodate the thousands of California, Oregon and Washington women who wished to avoid the logical result of conception. First step was to make a deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School...
...Federal power officials on a plan whereby Government and Business, instead of engaging in disastrous competition, would pool their resources for cooperative distribution. To the White House last week went Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie, Georgia Power's Preston Arkwright, Hartford Electric's Samuel Ferguson, General Electric's Owen D. Young, J. P. Morgan's Thomas Lament, to discuss Government and Business joining in a power pool. With TVA's Arthur Morgan and David Lilienthal, Federal Power Commission's Frank R. McNinch and other officials they talked for 90 minutes in the President...
...Texas' late great Senator." As Joe Sr. had to resign from the U. S. Senate because of his accepting money and favors from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, I fail to see where he achieved any greatness. To me he ranks with Jim & Ma Ferguson as cheap politicians whose memory makes decent Texans blush with shame...
President Samuel Ferguson of Hartford Electric Light...
Money for the monument was left by the late J. Henry Ferguson, bachelor Baltimore banker and socialite, who described Generals Jackson & Lee as "my boyish heroes," specified in his bequest: "On one of the [statue's] sides, I want it to read: They were great generals and Christian soldiers and waged war like gentlemen.' These are my own words, and I only ask the simple word under them, 'Ferguson.'" Mrs. Fraser's winning model, in accordance with the competition's rules, showed the generals as they parted before Chancellorsville, on May 2, 1863. General...