Word: haling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Ellery Hale, 69, astronomer credited with founding University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson, Palomar Mountain Observatories in California; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. Foremost U. S. authority on the sun, Dr. Hale discovered magnetic fields in sun spots, for his discovery won the British Royal Society's Sir Godfrey Copley medal, of which the first award was to Scientist Benjamin Franklin...
...HALE SPARKS...
...when both Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge had occasion to sleep in its soft beds, the Hamilton had 3,800 members. But Chicago Republicanism struck hard times two full years before the New Deal, when the late Anton J. Cermak swept clownish Republican Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson out of City Hall. Membership dropped from 2,300 in 1930 to less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller...
...Minneapolis boy who played guard for Yale and was on Walter Camp's original All-America football teams of 1889-90-91. After graduation Pudge Heffelfinger played a little professional football, coached at the University of California, went into the insurance business. Now approaching 70, still ruddy and hale, Pudge Heffelfinger is serving his fourth term as a Hennepin County (Minnesota) Commissioner, plays golf, lends his name and some of his time to the publication of two pamphlets called Heffelfinger's Football Facts and Heffelfinger's Baseball Facts. He played his last football game (nine minutes...
...Saloon League of America into a great political machine, only to see it die with the passage of the 20th Amendment (Repeal), two of the most zealous. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell and Dr. Francis Scott McBride, last week were again building. Dr. Russell last fortnight celebrated his 82nd birthday. Hale and vigorous, he said: "We've had a setback; we're going to have a comeback!" Dr. Russell and sad-eyed Dr. McBride, superintendent of the League, last week revealed to Philadelphia -first large city to see it in action-the technique of their comeback, a "mock trial...