Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many another outraged oldster throughout the land, Richmond Pearson Hobson sat up late in Manhattan one night last week discussing the depravity of President Roosevelt's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court. Most of the nation's unofficial denouncers that night were content to vent their spleen in talk, go modestly to bed. But Richmond Pearson Hobson was a professional zealot who, in 30-odd years of windy crusading against alcohol, narcotics and un-Americanism, of drumming up fears of Japanese invasion and Communist infiltration, had never forgotten that he was once...
...Schley had ventured close enough to sight a Spanish cruiser lying in plain view near the entrance to Santiago harbor, Admiral William T. Sampson determined to bottle up the enemy fleet by sinking a ship across the narrow harbor entrance. Because of his knowledge of ship construction, Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, nine years out of Annapolis, was chosen for the attempt. With seven volunteers aboard the stripped old collier Merrimac* he steamed up to the harbor in the dark of the moon on June 3. Everything went wrong. Eight of the ten torpedoes with which Hobson had planned to scuttle...
...SWAN OF LICHFIELD-Edited by Hesketh Pearson - Oxford University Press ($3.50). Selected correspondence of Anna Seward, an 18th Century highbrow journalist whose indiscreet literary anecdotes and witty rhetoric tickled her contemporaries, but "nauseated" the next generation's Victorians, who called her Johnsonian anecdotes an outrage...
TRIAL OF LIZZIE BORDEN - Edmund Pearson-Doubleday, Doran...
Last week Edmund Pearson, who specializes in writing up famed U. S. murder cases, published a full-length dissection of the Lizzie Borden mystery, complete with photographs of the victims, plans of the house, rescript of the trial and inquest testimony. Author Pearson was careful not to bring in a verdict, or at least not to say it out loud; but he obviously thought Lizzie Borden was lucky, not innocent...