Word: haled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson Observatory in California. Mr. Noyes was there the night the new 100-inch telescope was first put into use. The experience started him writing his blank verse epic of science, The Torchbearers. The U. S.'s high rank in pure science was superbly certified when Astronomer George Ellery Hale called his guests and assistants to be the first humans to witness the rising of one of Jupiter's eight moons...
...unable to attend, his place was taken, spontaneously, by onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania. The substitution made a very considerable difference in the nature of the speech delivered, for Mr. Pinchot vigorously attacked the Federal Government for entrusting flood control to Army engineers, and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago expressed his total lack of confdence in the flood-prevention measures recently (TIME, Aug. 1) expounded by Mr. Hoover at Rapid City. Mr. Pinchot termed the Army engineers' efforts at flood-control "the most colossal engineering blunder of the human race." Mayor Thompson said that "our failure...
...mentioned our neighboring institution, Oberlin, but over looked the fact that Denison also has a new president, Dr. Avery A. Shaw. Also, under "Kudos" "honorary degrees" [TIME, June 27] you neglected to mention that Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, a colored institution, had given our Honor able Mayor, William Hale Thompson, an honorary degree, by proxy. THOMAS N. PARKS Denison '28 Granville, Ohio...
Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts considered the situation sufficiently significant to mark a case of Clicquot Club ginger ale for delivery to William Hale Thompson, Mayor of Chicago...
...President came Howard Elliott, Chairman of the Board of the Northern Pacific R. R., Hale Holden, President, and Charles E. Perkins, General Manager, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. They discussed the proposed merger between the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern railroads, a question which the Interstate Commerce Commission will later decide...