Word: pigott
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Britain as a whole is probably prouder of the great Queen Mary and new Queen Elizabeth than of the peace of Munich. So their builders were also remembered on the King's honors list at the suggestion of the Prime Minister. A knighthood went to Stephen Joseph Pigott, managing director of the John Brown shipyards where they were built. The award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire went to George Patterson (Cunard-White Star's chief naval architect) and Donald M. Skiffington (John Brown yard director). Honest Tommy Rankin, foreman of the riveters...
Engaged. Charles Henry George Howard, Earl of Suffolk, 28, grandson of the late Chicago Merchant Levi Leiter; and Dancer Mimi Crawford (Mimi Forde Pigott), niece of Robert Chalmers, First Baron of Northiam, onetime Governor of Ceylon...
Last week southern planters could privately sympathize with lanky, middle-aged James E. Pigott of Washington Parish, La., who pleaded guilty before U. S. District Judge Wayne Borah (nephew of Idaho's Senator) in New Orleans. He admitted he had chained to trees on his plantation three Negroes who owed him money. Judge Borah sentenced him to 18 months in the Atlanta Penitentiary. Asked Planter Pigott...