Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others: Second Secretary of Embassy Frances Elizabeth Willis in Brussels, Vice-Consul Constance Ray Harvey in Milan. Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, Minister to Norway, is a political appointee...
...Robinson's casket stood on the floor of the Senate only a few feet from his empty desk. The President and his Cabinet occupied a group of chairs at the left of the Senate aisle. On the right sat the widow, family and friends including Mr. Baruch and Harvey Couch, the Arkansas utility tycoon. Senators, Representatives, Justice Pierce Butler representing the Supreme Court, Army, Navy & Marine officers, diplomats jammed the chamber. A soprano sang Lead, Kindly Light, the Reverend ZeBarney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, read the funeral service. The Reverend James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House, pronounced...
...State Highway District claimed the right-of-way to link it into the Carmel-San Simeon Highway. Civic clubs, chambers of commerce and the like have joined forces with the State to wrest the road from Ocean Shore R.R. Last week the battle still raged in court. Meanwhile, Downey Harvey, hav-ing lost $5,000,000 and been forced into bankruptcy, never entered business again. Convicted of fraud in 1913 for transferring $100,000 in stock to his wife before bankruptcy, Downey Harvey was cleared by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1916, has lived ever since on San Francisco...
...Harvey Harlow Nininger has made Denver the meteorite capital of the U. S. Curator of meteorites at Colorado Museum of Natural History, professor of geology and meteoritics at University of Denver, he is the most persistent and energetic chaser of meteorites in the land, possessor of the world's largest private meteorite collection and probably the only scientist anywhere who spends all his working time hunting, studying, writing or talking about fragments of the cosmos from outer space. Last week some 800 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science assembled in Denver for their summer meeting...
Meteorites fall in showers and Harvey Nininger by last week had got his hands on specimens from 77 different meteoritic falls. He pays what he considers a fair price to landowners on whose property meteorites are discovered, whether they are aware or not of the scientific value of the prize. His usual price is $1 per Ib., but he may pay much more than that for unusually fine specimens. He has supplied meteorites to the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, Chicago's Field Museum, Manhattan's American Museum, museums in Mexico, England, France, Czechoslovakia...