Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Pioneer Line provided free passage for child and mother. Philanthropist Sir Charles Conibere of Melbourne put up the cash for incidental expenses on the 106-day round trip. Schoolchildren chipped in. The U. S. waived immigration restrictions. Surrounded by reporters, Baby Rodgers arrived in Manhattan, pronounced the U. S. "okey-dokey," was whisked off by the Y. W. C. A. to Philadelphia where, in the strict privacy of Dr. Jackson's operating room, the nail was withdrawn from his lung in seven minutes...
...Francis who plays Florence Nightingale, nurses' special saint, in The White Angel (see p. 49), was put on exhibition, along with her director of this latest Warner Bros, cinematic biography. Handsome, informed Susan Catherine Francis of Philadelphia, president of the American Nurses' Association, talked about "the old pioneer spirit" which stirred the nurses to go West for their conventions. Dr. Annie Warburton Goodrich, 70, dean-emeritus of Yale's School of Nursing, stirred them deeply by declaring...
...chairman of his Church's commission on Church attendance, a pioneer in investigating the simple matter of how many pews are filled on Sunday, Roger Babson has reached the conclusion that...
...change in the producers' lineup was announced. Finding his Pioneer Pictures handicapped by producing color pictures only, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney finally merged it with Selznick International, David Selznick heading the combine with Merian Cooper and Henry Ginsberg at his side. All releases will be through United Artists, Mr. Whitney's contract with RKO-Radio being allowed to lapse...
...that Gobel was using Angostura Bitters to flavor its meats. Said 84-year-old President Josephine Wupperman, whose son, Cinemactor Frank Morgan (Francis Phillip Wupperman), is a vice president: "Isn't it strange how these things happen? Gobel, the great sausage maker, and my father-in-law, the pioneer traders in the great cattle of the Orinoco, were both Adolf-Adolf Gobel and Adolf Wup-perman-Wupperman in the town of Angostura, Venezuela, and Adolf Gobel in New York, both building on a lasting foundation for the benefit of humanity. Now at this late date, Gobel sausages and Angostura...