Word: hale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salem witchcraft frenzy. This was an event in which many prominent Harvard men were involved, but, characteristically, with entirely different points of view. William Stoughton, the chief prosecutor of the witch trials; Nathaniel Saltonstall, the judge who left the bench "rather than stain his hands with innocent blood"; John Hale, the most active minister among the witch-hunters; Joshua Moody, the minister who braved mob fury in helping some of the accused to escape; and President Mather, one of the two men who did most to bring the prosecutions to an end--all were Harvard men. Or, to bring...
...Kettering is No. 3 man in the world's largest automobile concern, runs GM's great research laboratories. From last week's testimony, however, it soon became clear that he is a better inventor than investor. To Mr. Kettering, in the spring of 1930, went two hale fellows, Ralph W. Simonds.of Baker, Simonds & Co. and Luther D. Thomas of Detroit's Fidelity Trust. They and their firms were sponsoring an investment trust called Yosemite Holding Corp. On their recommendation "Boss" Kettering bought through them 40,000 shares of Yosemite...
...Hale and cheerful at 75, only slightly muddled in his recollections of a remarkable career, Alderman Coughlin goes to his office at 9:30 a. m., leaves for the track soon after lunch. His companion is usually his crony and political ally, "Hinky Dink" Kenna. Occasionally, Bathhouse John rides to the track on the front seat of his limousine because the back seat is filled with feed for his horses, to which he gives such names as Sub-Committee, Honored Sir, Official. Why they win so few races is a mystery to Chicago sports writers, who have blamed everything from...
...Hale and ebullient in a grey tweed suit and straw hat, Henry Ford stepped briskly into the powerhouse of his huge River Rouge plant one morning last week accompanied by Son Edsel and other princes of his empire. The wiry, old motor manufacturer, who will be 73 next week, stopped to chat with newshawks, glancing fondly and frequently at a newly installed steam turbine generator towering 21 ft. from the floor...
...been case-hardened for 22 years in practical politics. Born at Fort Madison, Iowa, he was the younger son of a lawyer father who became claims attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad at Topeka. Both parents are now dead but John Hamilton has one brother, Hale, 12 years his elder, an actor who in 1910 starred in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, later went into the movies. John Hamilton graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1913, got his law degree from Chicago's Northwestern University three years later. Before graduation he married Laura Hall, daughter of a wealthy Kansas printer...