Word: millers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mina Miller Edison, 82, widow (second wife) of Thomas A. Edison; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. She was a noted supporter of the G.O.P. (but not during Democratic son Charles Edison's successful campaign for governor of New Jersey), of the Chautauqua Institution (cofounder: her father, Lewis Miller), and of the temperance movement...
Hmmm. In San Francisco, Dr. Robert C. Miller, director of the Steinhart Aquarium, excitedly opened a shipment of Hawaiian fish, was considerably let down to find a bunch of humuhumuhiukole; he had ordered humuhumunukunukuapuaa...
...Generation. In Chelsea, Mass., Miller Mitchell, 14, was just old enough, according to hospital regulations, to go in unescorted when he wanted to visit his 15-year-old wife and baby daughter...
...keep its twelve employees "contented and happy," Chicago's M. Glen Miller advertising agency last week launched a plan to give employees a year's vacation with pay after every six years of work. First to go was Stenographer Nellie Mason, who was required only to 1) spend the time in some constructive way and 2) write the office once a week. Miss Mason will spend her sabbatical year touring...
Said Agency President Miller: "I think everybody should have a chance to do the things they've always wanted to do, but never had the opportunity." To his stenographer's weekly letters, he will send biweekly replies (with her pay check), just to let her know how things are going...