Word: mcburney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President last week, finding himself bracketed with Joseph Stalin in the will of the late Leon Grant McBurney of Long Beach, Calif., ordered an investigation by the Solicitor General. McBurney, aged 72, died last December leaving $1,000 each to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, cut off his six children with $1 each. An attorney for the children requested both big beneficiaries to waive their claim. No reply had last week been received from Legatee Stalin, but it was indicated that Legatee Roosevelt would yield...
...loaded with bichloride of mercury. Sweet woman." Both murderers have been electrocuted. Wilmer Stultz, flyer who carried Amelia Earhart on her first trip across the Atlantic, was drunk, his brain subsequently proved to Toxicologist Gettler, when he killed himself and two passengers in a Long Island crash. Eben McBurney Byers. the Pittsburgh industrialist who died after prolonged drinking of radium water (TIME. April 11. 1932). "took the stuff," said Dr. Gettler. "for rejuvenation. He was a good man. He gave it to his friends. At first you feel fine. It bucks you up, for maybe six months. Then...
...pleased when his friends call him "The Admiral." Boston-born, he worked as a chemist, got into electrical engineering, became an associate partner of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty, made enough money to retire to a comfortable home on Manhattan's East 57th Street. Mrs. Gardiner is Mary Ruth McBurney, interior decorator...
...Ralph McBurney of the University of Alabama is announced as the holder of a Research Fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health...