Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's parade was advertised in advance as the last the G. A. R. would ever hold. But the spunky oldsters enjoyed it so much that they proceeded to elect a new commander-in-chief, C. H. William Ruhe of Pittsburgh, optimistically plan a 71st Encampment in Madison, Wis. next year...
...Browne & Nicholas Bailey, George W. Jr. 18 173 6. Exeter Bassett, Cortland A. 18 143 5.8 Athol High Boulger, Thomas A. 18 138 5.9 Bexley High Curtis, Charles W. 3d 18 150 5.8 Choate Davisson, Richard L. 18 173 5.10 St. Paul's Ditrinco, Vincent 18 142 5.11 Madison High Downes, Philip G. 18 155 5.9 Country Day Ervin, Henry N. 17 158 5.9 St. Mark's Estabrook, Frederick R. Jr. 17 180 6.2 Aven Old Farms Francis, Victor 19 170 5.11 Mitlon Academy Freedley, Vinton 18 145 5.9 St. Paul's Fulton, Robert 19 155 5.9 New Prep Grace...
...four days in the following communities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville. St. Louis, Cleveland, Des Moines, Omaha, Billings, Mont., Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Ore., San Francisco-Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Boston, winding up with a multitudinous evangelical mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the second week of December...
...which 17 persons were killed, 17 crippled for life. Running for Congress in 1902, Publisher Hearst, as President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, arranged a monster pyrotechnical display on election night to celebrate the victory which he and Tammany expected and won. Thousands jammed into Madison Square to see his well-publicized show. On a stereopticon screen flashed a photograph of Congressman-elect Hearst while rockets screamed and zoomed. A spark set off a defective mortar which blew up, felled scores with scraps of flying steel. Next morning Hearst's American buried news of the disaster...
...they seldom warn the victim of their presence until it is too late to get rid of them. Nonetheless, surgeons can save the lives of an appreciable number of victims. Radiologists, guided by Dr. Gioacchino Failla of Manhattan and Dr. Henri Coutard of Paris, both of whom spoke in Madison last week, are learning to focus x-ray beams of hundreds of thousands of volts upon cancerous internal organs and to bring about some cures. But no specialist can yet explain why radiations destroy cancers any more than a specialist can describe the exact conditions which permit a cancer...