Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday afternoon tennis party was in full swing at Banker Harvey Dow Gibson's home near the Creek Club in Locust Valley, L. I. Mr. Gibson was wanted on the telephone. When he returned to his guests he looked thoughtful. It had been Secretary Mellon, asking Banker Gibson to be in Washington the next...
...Lusk, professor of physiology of the School of Medicine of Cornell University, will speak on "The Life of a Professor." The presentation to the medical school of the portrait of Dr. Cannon will then take place. Members of the committee in charge are: Dr. Henry A. Christian, chairnfan, Dr. Harvey Cushing. Dr. Alexander Forbes, Dr. Alfred C. Redfield and Dr. Cecil K. Drinker...
...again." Thus when he came accidentally across wireless waves, he took out a patent but, seeing no use at the time for this "etheric force," forgot it until he sold his right to Marconi in 1903. A need was his cue to start working; as when his friend. Rubberman Harvey Firestone sent to Liberia for materials. Forthwith Edison started his last experiments: U. S. rubber production from golden...
Meanwhile: In South Carolina the House and Senate both passed a "Drop-a-Crop" plan. In Georgia Governor Richard B. Russell Jr. had announced that a majority of his farmers favored it. Governor Harvey Parnell of Arkansas had sent a delegation to Austin to urge it. With the plan already doomed to defeat through Texas' failure to adopt it. Governor Long said he would declare the Louisiana bill "null and void and inoperative." Oklahoma cotton growers agreed to follow Texas. Alabama and Mississippi were still lukewarm. North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner announced that no session...
...airplane bearing tear-gas bombs zoomed down upon small Jonesboro, Ark. one day last week. The National Guard stood ready with machine guns and fixed bayonets. Would there be martial law? Arkansas' Governor Harvey Parnell sent ten State Highway policemen. Local police were practically of no use; they wanted to take sides and get in the battle themselves. For of Jonesboro's 10,000-odd inhabitants, fully 7,000 were enjoying a breath-taking series of revival-meetings, near-riots, brawls and courtroom scenes...