Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disgruntled newsdealer, two strangers and a posse made their way to a farmhouse near Newton, N. J. one evening last week. The strangers and the posse hid while the newsdealer asked for "Mr. Toomer,'' who came out on the porch. While the dealer angrily demanded that Toomer pay him for supplying all the Manhattan newspapers for the past two weeks, the strangers and posse appeared, surrounded Mr. Toomer, held him fast. In Mr. Toomer's pocket was found a .38 revolver. The strangers soon identified themselves as detectives and Toomer admitted that he was notorious Arthur Barry...
President Hoover started a six week nationwide campaign to raise millions of dollars locally for local relief. A non-Government enterprise actively headed by Newton Diehl Baker. This cash drive constitutes the backbone of the President's program for getting the country through the winter and figures conspicuously in the political record on which he seeks reelection. Having promised in his stump speech at Cleveland that no "deserving" citizen shall starve, President Hoover sat down at his Cabinet table and appealed by radio to "the great heart of the American people." He spoke of "a wealth of human sympathy...
...Philadelphians who run and control Sun Oil are the Pews (not to be confused with Philadelphia's Pughs). Joseph Newton Pew founded the business in 1886, 27 years after the famed Titusville gusher came in, by buying natural gas properties. In 1894 the company purchased a refinery at Toledo. In the late 1890's when the Spindle Top field of South Texas was brought in. Sun acquired large leaseholds...
...chief Pew now is the founder's son, John Howard Pew, 50, who serves as president. His brother, Joseph Newton Pew Jr., is a vice president as is his nephew Arthur Edmund Pew and his first cousin James Edgar Pew. Together they dominate the six-man board of directors. They all live in smart Ardmore. President Pew's chief outside interest is Grove City College (Presbyterian) which his father founded and over whose trustees he presides...
...Harvard Hand was one of three bands invited by the Mobilization, which is under the direction of Newton D. Baker, to play a medley of tunes from their respective sections of the country. The University of Illinois and the University of California were the other colleges which were selected to participate in the program. The Harvard Band rendered mainly Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard songs...