Word: rea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, the Southern Pacific R.R. was adjudged guilty of adding 80 pounds to the weight of a female passenger. Aboard a Southern Pacific ferry, Mrs. Elsie Rea, 20, fell. Injuries to thyroid and pituitary glands set in motion chemistry that raised her weight from 145 to 225 pounds. Damages for plaintiff...
Since 1880 six men have been president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They were: Roberts, 1880-1897 Thompson, 1897-1899 Cassatt, 1899-1906 McRea, 1906-1913 Rea, 1913-1925 Atterbury, 1925- Fifth on the list in point of time, but not of stature, is Samuel Rea, who died last week in his home at Bryn Mawr, suburb of Philadelphia. Of him said Frederick D. Underwood, onetime (1901-26) president of Erie Railroad: "I have known four presidents of the Pennsylvania preceding Mr. Rea ... he stood head and shoulders above them...
Married. Thomas Fortune Ryan 2d, 29, grandson of the late capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Mrs. Margaret Moorhead Rea, 29, divorced wife of the son of the onetime president of Pennsylvania Railroad; in the Municipal Building, Manhattan...
...wrote, last week, Professor Yandell Henderson (physiologist) and Assistant Professor Maurice Rea Davie (sociologist) from Yale, again expressing the trite thought that college professors earn too little...
Died. Brig. Gen. John Rea McQuigg, 62, Cleveland banker-lawyer, onetime Commander of the American Legion (1925); after a year's illness; in Cleveland...