Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dangerous member of a dangerous family": the malaria mosquitoes. Native home of the gambiae is Central Africa, but about nine years ago they crossed the Atlantic presumably in a French airplane which flew from Dakar in West Africa, to Natal in Brazil. They were spotted by Dr. Raymond Corbett Shannon, a member of the Foundation's staff. Within a year they had flown with the prevailing winds 115 miles up the coast...
When Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn drove past him near Wilmington, Del., State Trooper Joseph Shannon stopped her "because she looked too young to drive a car." Later he declared: "I soon found out she was not a kid. She was a regular little wildcat. She shrieked . . . and generally acted like a bunch of wildfire...
Housed in the new Interior Building's seventh-floor penthouse, the studio is planned for the launching of new ideas in Government broadcasting. The idea man is Shannon Allen, acting radio section director of the Interior Department's Division of Information. A onetime NBC production man, he has the job of coordinating broadcasting activities of all Interior Department bureaus, furnishing radioactive bureau heads with the professional touch. For the dry statistical reports that are now the rule, Director Allen hopes to substitute dramatic treatment, has issued script samples to educate officials. Sample sample for a disquisition on reclamation...
Frederick L. Schuman of Williams, whose International Relations texts are standard here, will teach in his field with Professor Fred A. Shannon of Kansas and George H. Blakeslee from Clark University. From Amsterdam comes Professor Karel R.Gallas to lecture on modern French language and literature...
...were looking feebler than usual after rejecting Reorganization, they learned that Assistant Capitol Architect Horace D. Rouzer had told a House Appropriations subcommittee that Representatives might rest their legs as well as their jaws when they shuttle through the tunnel next year. Commented Missouri's Congressman Joseph B. Shannon: "I've seen many members who had reached 70 or 72 years old, and they just couldn't make the grade. I think it hurried them to their graves...