Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Bardstown, Ky. (pop.: 1,767) last week a local legend was proudly celebrated as a national fact. Kentucky's rotund Senator Logan made a speech and ladies dressed in crinolines tittered and played hostess in "Federal Hill," the old home of Judge John Rowan. Bardstown believers were commemorating the birthday of a Rowan relation, Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster...
Spleen. To enliven its conventions, the A. F. of L. does not put on Zouave parades or ladies' auxiliary bridge tournaments. It invites some foreign Laborite to give a good hell-raising address against some common foe. This year the guest was James Rowan, member of the general council of the British Trade Union Congress. His subject was Adolf Hitler. Said...
When great numbers of dead & dying wild ducks were found drifting forlornly on the lakes of Alberta, the Calgary Fish & Game Association was inclined to blame alkaline water, summoned the University of Alberta's Professor William Rowan and two other naturalists to investigate. Professor Rowan & associates quickly exculpated the water. They described, in a report made public last week through a U. S. game protection association, an uglier cause-leeches. The Rowan report implied that food scarcity this year interferes with the duck's good sense: "Undoubted catfee of the enormous mortality is the hungry duck greedily attempting...
...Beal, O. H. Emmons, R. M. Farlow, B. L. Fairbanks, E. H. Pringle, A. G. Webster, and H. A. White, Broad Compromise Race has atracted the following: G. A. Emerson, Jr., S. B. Flint, W. J. Keville, J. A. McAllen, J. P. Riesman, P. D. Rowan, and C. P. Ware...
Count Mass, Jr., E. R. Little, P. D. Rowan, J. D. Tew, Dom. P. Davis, A. L. Jorgenson, C. Francis Ladd, Doris Benson, John E. Bird, Barbara Evers, R. A. Benson, Jr., Reed E. Bartlett, Charles W. Perry, Sidney Gleason, 2nd, Ruth Hussey, W. A. Frances, Mary Ettling, Evelyn Hassman, T. Gordan Bingham, Jr., Dorothy Hughes, F. F. Silver, Robert Schafer, Natalie Peterson, Alber Flower, Jr., Mina Flower, Beechman, L. Fairbank, Margaret Page, Dorothea MacMillen, H. Myron, Jr., G. S. Worcester, N. Shipman, Jay Ricks, Miss J. White...