Word: fowlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to three Korean war heroes-Lieut. Lloyd L. Burke of Stuttgart, Ark., Corporal Rodolfo P. Hernandez of Fowler, Calif. and Marine Master Sergeant Harold E. Wilson of Birmingham, Ala.-and said, proudly: "These citations . . . show just exactly what the fiber of the American people is made...
Wood's policy of promoting from within the company has also boosted morale and given Sears a strong team ready to run the company when he retires. The two top men: 1) Fowler McConnell, 57, a University of Chicago graduate who joined Sears as a stock boy in 1916, worked his way up through both the mail-order and retail ends of the business, and has been president since 1946; and 2) Merchandising Vice President Theodore Houser, now 57, Wood's old assistant at Montgomery Ward, who moved to Sears when Wood became president and is regarded...
After 2½ hours of tense work in the operating room of St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill., Surgeon Edson F. Fowler was just beginning to relax. He had removed part of the stomach of the Rev. James Cummings, 35, a Chicago priest, because of intractable ulcers. Everything had gone smoothly. But as Dr. Fowler was putting the last stitches in the patient's abdomen, there came a bang like that of a bursting tire, and a puff of smoke spewed out of the anesthesia machine. The explosion ripped open the anesthesia bag, and blew out the glass covers...
...Fowler quickly examined his patient. Part of the hot blast had traveled along the anesthesia tube: bright red blood from broken vessels in the lungs was filling Patient Cummings' windpipe. The blood was drained off, and a mask was fitted to give artificial respiration. But little more than two hours later, Father Cummings was dead, the victim of the kind of accident every hospital dreads. Explosions of anesthetic gases (in this case, a mixture of nitrous oxide, ether and cyclopropane) happen about once in 75,000 operations, and are almost certain to cause serious injury to the patient...
...less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson and former American Bar Association head, Cody Fowler), the chore was accepted by Newbold Morris, a blueblood reformist Republican from Manhattan...