Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet was divided into one faction that wanted to spend upwards of $2,000,000,000 per year on roads, harbors, bridges, slum clearance, etc. etc. and another faction that wanted to spend less than $1,000,000,000 for the same purposes. ¶ On June 3, 1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson won the nation's applause by sinking the Merrimac to bottle up the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Last week President Roosevelt pinned a Congressional Medal of Honor on the Hobson breast for that feat. Mr. Hobson is nowadays a famed anti-narcotics crusader...
Died. Andrew Cameron Pearson, 59, board chairman of United Publishers Corp. (trade journals), president of National Publishers Assn., national chairman of the American Publishers Conference, brother of Governor Paul Martin Pearson of the Virgin Islands; of a heart attack; in Montclair...
...Dunster House Friday night, Gil White and his Royal Ambassadors have been secured to furnish music for dancing. At the same time a list of ushers was announced. They will be: Karl Adams, Jr. '33, W. F. Draper '35, W. H. Horwitz '34, Vincent Palmer '35, H. G. Pearson, Jr. '34, R. C. Phillips '34 in addition to members of the House Committee...
...Passed a House bill awarding the Medal of Honor to Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. N. retired, who sank the U. S. S. Merrimac to block the harbor of Santiago. Cuba, June 3, 1898; sent it to the President...
...Order of St. Gregory the Great, by Pope Pius; to Psychiatrist Earl Danford Bond,.Philadelphia's $10,000 Bok prize for city service; to James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet fever germ and serum...