Word: fremont
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paul Fremont-Smith, Cambridge, Massachusetts--Browne and Nichols School...
...furnish no evidence to the contrary but I should like to see you prove the assertion. FREMONT POWER...
...Once a year each of its 289 presbyteries elects a moderator to be its presiding officer. In Omaha last week met pastors of 10,000 Nebraska Presbyterians. When nominations for moderator were requested, no one immediately thought of a name, and to Rev. Ralph Valentine Gilbert of Fremont there came, as he said later, "an impulse." Leaping to his feet he proposed the name of Rev. John Simeon Williams. Startled, the Omaha Presbytery pondered Minister Gilbert's proposal long enough to agree that it was good. Someone moved that nominations be closed. Thus elected was the presbytery...
When the Denver Post, where he was next employed, discontinued its morning edition in 1928, Watson started back East in a second-hand flivver with his wife, then pregnant, and $25 capital. At Fremont, Neb. they ran out of gas and money, but got on to Chicago where Watson landed a job with the AP, which in time shifted him to its New York office. There his job, besides rewriting and editing, included important reporting assignments...
...years ago Charles S. Ryckman, an editor of Fremont, Neb., won the Pulitzer Prize with an editorial arguing that the reason Nebraska regularly re-elected Norris was that through him it could take a slap at the East. Since then this idea has gained much currency, but unfortunately almost no Nebraskans subscribe to it. They do not mind political irregularity for they are themselves politically irregular, frequently electing Democratic Governors at the same time that they vote Republican in national elections. Senator Norris, who has never had a political organization at home, has generally a more powerful individual appeal...