Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...epidemic North Carolina's State epidemiologist. Dr. Joseph Clyde Knox, has advised against children attending summer schools. President Roosevelt's good friend. Dr. Leroy Watkins Hubbard of the Warm Springs Infantile Paralysis Sanatorium, has gone from Georgia to help Epidemiologist Knox. as have Drs. Warren Palmer Dearing and Alexander Gordon Gilliam, infantile paralysis experts of the U. S. Public Health Service. Dr. James Payton Leake. best U. S. P. H. S. expert, was to be there this week...
...crooned syncopation and eager pace of last year's musicals would be an unthinkable violation. Paris in Spring handsomely exhibits all the proper appointments in the manner of the day: no gags, no chorus, no comic. Sprightliness is the keynote of the dialog. Songwriters Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, with a fetching title song and probably the year's best tango (Bonjour, Mam'selle), are continental in chunks, and Mary Ellis, though she frequently sings with abandon, keeps her well-proportioned body covered at all times with expensive furs or drygoods...
...most shipboard jobs, bosses her crews without profanity, likes to sew and embroider on deck. Recently "Ma" Greene bought for $135,000 the old-style packet Cape Girardeau which Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson used to use for political junkets. Renamed the Gordon C. Greene for "Ma" Greene's husband, she was ready last week, with 100 passengers and 700 tons of whiskey, soap and paint, to re-open steamboat passenger service between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh (500 miles). Rivermen gave her an oldtime sendoff. A deck-sweep fired a cannon. Forty Negro roustabouts sang, "Gwineter...
...GORDON W. WINKS...
...testy irishman entered the telegraph & cable field solely to annoy Jay Gould, who had characteristically crossed him in a business deal. Allied with the equally testy Publisher James Gordon Bennett, who shared his animosity for the sly manipulator of Erie-R. R., John Mackay strenuously laid cables and strung wires to compete with Western Union, then a Gould favorite. The ensuing rate wars were scandalous, but at the founder's death in 1902 the Mackay companies were still a worthy heritage...