Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Margaret Stockton, 19, daughter of Boston Socialite Philip Stockton; and Charles Francis Adams Jr.. 23, son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy; in Beverly, Mass...
Engaged. Charles Francis Adams Jr., 23, son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy, descendant of John and John Quincy Adams, second & sixth U. S. Presidents; and Margaret Stockton, 19, daughter of Philip Stockton, president of Boston's First National Bank. ¶ To Abbe Georges Lemaitre, professor at the University of Louvain. now lecturing at Catholic University in Washington, D. C., author of the ''expanding universe" theory which views the present universe as shrapnel of one atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance...
...comply with the provision of the Banking Act of 1933 which prohibits a person interested in dealing in securities from serving as a bank director after Jan. 1. Among retiring directors: Floyd L. Carlisle of Niagara Hudson and Frederic J. Fisher (bodies) from Manhattan's National City. Philip Stockton of Boston's First National reversed the drift by resigning from First of Boston Corp. (securities affiliate...
...telegram quickly provided "Poor Devil's" identity. Again he was authentically Harry Stockton Boon, auditor for the Department of Agriculture in whose service he has spent 16 years. He left Washington seven weeks ago. Last week he was on his way to San Diego to visit his brother. Captain Ben Boon of the U. S. Army...
...point toward the fruition of Cecil Rhodes's idea, for the biggest group of Rhodesmen (40%) have become educators. Eight are college presidents, 13 deans, one (John James Tigert) was U. S. Commissioner of Education from 1921 to 1928. Other distinguished Rhodesmen include Minister to Austria Gilchrist Baker Stockton, onetime Amateur Boxing Champion Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (now a lawyer), Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Boston, Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck who advises Secretary Hull on the Far East, Police Commissioner J. K. Watkins of Detroit, Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson (whose conception of the expanding Universe is called...