Word: preston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again contradicts accepted dope by predicting Harvard win, for Harvard aint such a Baum Little team. No Mather how much the press talks Army can't Skaer Crimson. Harvard goal-line is a Hartline to cross, but when the local backs have wiggled their Hipps across the goal and Preston to another win, Ohman what fun in the Howell Lockerhauser (Dillon Field House, stupid!). Harvard 13, Army...
...inviting interested power tycoons to confer with him and Federal power officials on a plan whereby Government and Business, instead of engaging in disastrous competition, would pool their resources for cooperative distribution. To the White House last week went Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie, Georgia Power's Preston Arkwright, Hartford Electric's Samuel Ferguson, General Electric's Owen D. Young, J. P. Morgan's Thomas Lament, to discuss Government and Business joining in a power pool. With TVA's Arthur Morgan and David Lilienthal, Federal Power Commission's Frank R. McNinch and other...
...malaria and yellow fever. To give the railroad something to haul he started to plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others, on banana money. In 1899 he merged his railroads and plantations with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Co. to form United Fruit, then went north to develop International Railways in Guatemala. United Fruit invested $10,000,000 in the railroad...
Marriage Revealed. George Preston Marshall, owner of Washington's Palace Laundries ("Long Live Linen"), the Boston Redskins (professional football team), onetime publisher of William Randolph Hearst's Washington Times; and Corinne Griffith, cinemactress; in Armonk, N. Y., last month...
...Alexander Preston Shaw, 57, of New Orleans, is editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate. Most Methodist bishops look alike, with their white faces, firm jaws, thin lips. Bishop Shaw is physically unique in that he is a Negro. He is to succeed retiring Negro Bishop Matthew Wesley Clair of Covington...