Word: gosney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Inside the Cessna, the young man, later identified as Larry Layton, 32, proved that he should have been watched. He opened fire with a pistol, wounding a woman, Vernie Gosney, who was seated beside the pilot. Layton ran from the plane. After the assailants withdrew, the Otter was found to be too damaged to fly. Its crew rushed over to the Cessna and managed to take off for Georgetown with five survivors...
...Flack kept getting reports of women over 50 who had had babies, and many readers kept asking, "Is this a record?" To answer them, Dr. Flack did a great deal of digging, and eventually he settled on the case of Hilda Gosney, who was born April 19, 1906, at Knottingley in Yorkshire, when her mother (as attested by the birth certificate on file at Somerset House in London) was 53 years, 7 months and 12 days old. Nobody seems to have bothered to ask Mr. Gosney's first name, but it is recorded that...
...organized by 26 charter members, 18 of whom are listed in Who's Who in America. It is managed by a board of nine trustees, all prominent, conservative men. Its work is a constructive type of prevention of dependency, rather than the "patch work" of relief. . . . E. S. GOSNEY President...
...members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to labor for eugenic sterilization greeted them when they assembled at Syracuse University last week for their midsummer meeting. Distributors of the leaflets were agents of the Human Betterment Foundation, a California organization created and financed by Ezra Seymour Gosney, a Pasadena banker. Founder Gosney, 76, is president: his two daughters and their husbands are trustees. Other trustees are Banker Henry Mauris Robinson, close friend of Herbert Hoover, and Biologist Paul ("Population") Popenoe...
...Books" on the subject: STERILIZATION FOR HUMAN BETTERMENT?E. S. Gosney &; P. Popenoe?Macmillan ($2); HUMAN STERILIZATION? J. H. Landman?Macmillan...
| 1 |