Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MICHAEL F. SHANNON JR. Los Angeles, Calif...
...detailing what led to or what followed some 30 purchases j of articles in them. A thin thread of narrative holds the episodes of Catalogue together, but most of the book is given over to candid, unlovely but often grimly humorous portraits of the natives-Spike, the mean taxidriver; Shannon, the old postmaster, who is almost the only humane figure in the lot; the unfaithful bride, whose lover is in terror of her husband's shotgun; old Double S. Winston, the banker, who puts down extravagant plans for a sewer system; a rich Indian named Eagle Catoosa...
...surface. It was originally made for use in countertops and tabletops, graduated into wainscotting for hallways and bathrooms, last year was used in store fronts. Pittsburgh also makes Herculite, a glass which will resist temperatures up to 650°. Most spectacular Pittsburgh stunt came last month when Sergeant Frank Shannon, champion marksman of the Newark, N. J. police force, fired a round of Thompson submachine gun bullets at Night-Club Singer Ella Logan. Though only 30 feet from the "Tommy-gun," Miss Logan smiled, powdered her nose, survived. Between the singer and the Sergeant stood a sheet of Pittsburgh...
...name of Herbert Clark Hoover meant exactly nothing. But Californians, particularly Stanford alumni, were already proud of Engineer Hoover's success and, regarding him as their most distinguished Londoner, usually carried letters of introduction when they crossed the Atlantic. Hence it was inevitable that when Benjamin Shannon Allen, a scholarly young reporter with an A. B. and A. M. in history from Stanford, was assigned to Associated Press's London bureau in 1910, he should soon make his way to the Hoovers' "Red House." For four years the friendship of the two expatriates ripened in private. Then...
Though Foster is leaving the hospital today, his doctors petitioned Lieutenant Joseph Shannon to seek a week's postponement of the case as the janitor is still too weak to bear the strain of appearing in court...