Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Peter Hedblom...
...South Dakota, choice of a Democratic candidate for Senator was complicated less by national than personal considerations. In 1936, Senator Peter Norbeck died just as Governor Tom Berry was rounding out his second term. Governor Berry might have liked to retire and move into the vacancy. But he was restrained by the fact that his lieutenant governor had just been indicted for embezzlement and might therefore have been ousted if he succeeded Berry as Governor, before he could appoint him (Berry) or anyone else to the Senate. Mr. Berry judiciously appointed Herbert Hitchcock, the State's Democratic Committee Chairman...
Born in Kenosha, Wis., Orson before the age of ten was a professional actor, ma-ing $25 a day dressed up as Peter Rabbit in Chicago's Marshall Field's. At twelve, in the progressive Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill., Orson was staging his first production of Julius Caesar-in which he played the Soothsayer, Cassius and Marc Antony with relay-race technique...
Died. Virgil D. Giannini, 38, younger son of San Francisco's Big Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini (Bank of America); of a cerebral hemorrhage resulting from a fall in the Giannini home; in San Francisco...
...anything to do with it. Eight anarchists were tried for murder, and although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were pardoned by the pale, homely, contradictory John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, prison reformer, idealist, lawyer, wealthy real-estate operator and builder of one of Chicago's first skyscrapers. Last week Altgeld's story was told in a 496-page volume which gave the governor's reasons for his act, showed its consequences not only...