Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johnson & Friends. Only the last part of General Johnson's life has been spent outside the service. They had hardly stopped shooting Indians near Fort Scott, Kans. when he was born there in 1882. He graduated from West Point, promptly married a colonel's daughter. To eke out a cavalry second lieutenant's pay. he wrote a pair of boys' books: Williams of West Point, Williams on Service. A law degree from the University of California made him eligible for the Judge Advocate General's Department in 1916. Odd jobs in the Army: feeding...
...Chatham Press. Drawings by Scott Wilson. Price $3.50 with a phonograph record on which Mr. Fiske plays the piano and recites the adventures of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon...
Oberlin College (Ohio) Jerome Davis of Yale Divinity School. . D.D. Pianist Ernest Hutcheson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mus. D. Naturalist Herbert Spencer Jennings. . . Sc.D. Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt.D. James Brown Scott, lawyer, peace-worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...York State's new wall-less, bar-less prison at Wallkill, which convicts call ''The Country Club." His application was denied because authorities feared his onetime depositors might protest. ∙ While fire swept through the second & third floors of his home near Baltimore. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald stopped rescuing furniture long enough to answer a newshawk's telephone call. Said he: "Won't you please excuse me? The house is still burning and I'm standing in three feet of water...
...Charleston, W. Va., a bolt of lightning destroyed the lower half of Bailey Scott's false teeth. Bailey Scott was unhurt...