Word: mississippian
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...friend of Presidential Cronies Donald S. Dawson and Major General Harry Vaughan. Under questioning, Boehm reluctantly disclosed a few of his successful Washington deals. Among them was arranging a $200,000 RFC loan for a Philadelphia paper concern, picking up a $10,000 fee for promising to help a Mississippian sell a submachine gun to Army Ordnance, and helping a "client" who wanted to buy surplus war property by forming a partnership and splitting a $25,000 fee. The fee was split with Herschel Young, a fellow Missourian who was an employee of the War Assets Administration and a brother...
...Society said it had found "scores of Middle Mississippian clams and corals" in the limestone walls of the House's showers. It added that it had checked the find with Marland P. Billings '23, professor of Geology...
Blair subsequently made out a Ceraptopea Agglomerata and several Spirifer Lateralis Delicatus Subcardiiformis, he said. This placed the shower in the Meramecian stage of the Mississippian period...
...Nobel literary prizewinner, also named last week, was 78-year-old British Philosopher Bertrand,Lord Russell. The 1949 literary prize, held over from last fall because members of the Swedish Academy failed to agree on a candidate, went to U.S. Novelist William Faulkner, 53-year-old Mississippian...
From an 80-year-old Mississippian-"I was disable to get over a fence, disable to get up out of chair without help, but after I took eight bottles of Hadacol I can. . .tie up my own shoes and feel like I can jump over a six-foot fence and getting very sassy...