Word: newcomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jehovah had popped up in U. S. public schools. In Lynn aging Cora Foster, who had taught in local schools for 40 years, faced dismissal after confessing that she, too, was a Witness. In nearby Saugus seven young Witnesses were expelled. In Weymouth high school Witnesses Charles & Harold Newcomb, who claim to be descendants of Betsy Ross, staged a sympathy strike against "the Devil's emblem." In Norwalk. Conn., a 13-year-old Witness was barred from all school activities except classes. Suspended from the Lakewood, N. J., high school, a 16-year-old was given a week...
...colonnade of New York University's Hall of Fame there are niches for 150 busts. Sixty-nine of the niches are filled. Last week the 101 bigwigs who serve as Electors filled niches Nos. 70, 71 and 72 as follows: William Penn, Simon Newcomb, Grover Cleveland...
William Penn, runner-up in the 1930 election and nominee of the Pennsylvania Legislature, finally sailed through with 83 votes. Grover Cleveland got in with 77 votes, a comfortable margin over the necessary three-fifths but not enough to take second place from a dark horse, Simon Newcomb who polled 78. That distinguished U. S. mathematical astronomer was born in Nova Scotia in 1835, ran away to the U. S. when he was 18. A pushing lad, he forced himself on the attention of Harvard scientists, soon overshadowed them. The last 30 years of his life were spent building...
Next spring, busts of Winners Penn, Newcomb & Cleveland will be placed in the care of the Hall of Fame's 82-year-old director, Robert Underwood Johnson, poet and onetime (1920-21) Ambassador to Italy, whose white whiskers compare in bushiness with those of such inmates as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel F. B. Morse and new Simon Newcomb...
...York businessmen formed a new company. Among the incorporators were: Winthrop W Aldrich, Paul D, Cravath, Matthew Woll, Nelson A. Rockefeller, David Sarnoff, Jackson E. Reynolds, Ogden L. Mills, Owen D. Young, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Walter C. Teagle, Myron C. Taylor, Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, Newcomb Carlton, Percy S. Straus, Clarence M, Woolley, Frederick H. Ecker, Edward S. Harkness, Joseph P. Day, F. Trubee Davison, George Le Boutillier, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Henry S. Morgan, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter P. Chrysler, James G. Blaine, Charles Hayden, Charles E, Hughes Jr., Harry Harkness Flagler, Thomas I. Parkinson. The company...