Word: grangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because elderly, unassuming Frank Granger Logan, 85, founder of the brokerage house of Logan & Bryan, has served 50 years on the board of the Chicago Art Institute, because he is now its honorary president, the Art Institute honored him last week with an exhibition of some 20 paintings which have won the Institute's famed Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. Logan medal and prize. Since 1917, 230 awards have been made, $75,949 distributed in prize money. At the same time last week, less retiring Mrs. Frank Granger Logan published at her own expense her long awaited blast against "modernistic...
Most ironic development in Bass's career came with his spectacular, profitless raids on the dinky little Texas trains that ran from Dallas to Houston. They occurred at the height of the Granger agitation for lower freight rates, when railroads were denounced throughout the West, consequently aroused excitement out of all proportion to their importance as robberies. Afterwards Bass apparently could count on enough support among the farmers to feel sure of hiding places when pursuit grew hot, although his attacks on the railroads had not helped the farmers and scarcely hurt the carriers...
...Manhattan, women passengers helped Mrs. Rose Granger, 19, from a subway train, modestly formed a ring around her on the platform while she gave birth to a two-pound...
...bloody girl in a torn, singed uniform stumbling up to her door, escorted by a neighbor. The girl gasped that she must use the telephone. She called a number, clutched the instrument for support, steadied her voice when she got an answer. 'Mr. Williams, this is Nellie Granger, hostess on Flight I. The ship crashed and started to burn. . . . Both Otto Ferguson and Lewis [the copilot] were killed. . . . Nine passengers were killed...
...Nellie Granger, registered nurse, insisted on returning to the wreck with mountaineers. Near the smoking debris of the Sun Racer they found still alive the two passengers who had occupied seats Nos. 7 and 11. One was Mrs. Ellenstein, with two broken legs, the other a Cleve-lander named Challinor, whose ankles were shattered. Miss Granger ministered to them as best she could until State troopers arrived. Later, in a hospital, the hostess could not remember exactly what had happened. She thought she had been able to pull the Newark Mayor's wife and Challinor from the cabin before...