Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange as the Ozark back country where it was enacted was the trial last week at Mountain View, Ark. of four "hill barons" indicted for the murder of Connie Franklin (TIME, Dec. 9). Prime witness for the defense was a gaunt, sun-reddened farmhand who swore he was Connie Franklin himself...
...John Boardman Page 66 Charles Darwin Graham 65 Charles Stuart Ross 62 CLASS COMMITTEE * Guy Constant Holbrook Jr. 156 * Arthur Lithgow Devens Jr. 142 * Bernard Barnes 137 * William Potter Lage 122 * Thomas Frothingham Mason 115 * Howard Theodore Wenner 109 Lawrence Witherspoon Dickey 103 Eliot Thwing Putnam Jr. 98 Robert Franklin Walker Smith 85 Morris Ruggles Brownell Jr. 79 Chester Boice Allen 77 William Wallace Ryan 69 Erma Ossippee Johnson 66 George Paul Heffner 61 Arthur Babise McGuire 61 John Davenport Herbert 55 Frank Richard Pierce 52 * Elected
...West Virginia; at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Died. Charles James McCarthy, 68, onetime (1918-21) Governor of Hawaii; at Honolulu; of cancer of the throat. In 1890 he became a member of the monarchical House of Nobles, was a staunch supporter of Queen Liliuokalani (deposed 1887). Died. Benjamin Franklin Yoakum, 70, longtime railroader, director of Seaboard Air Line, director and onetime President of St. Louis & San Francisco R. R.; in Manhattan; of heart failure. He was largely responsible for the irrigation, transportation and agricultural development of the Texas Gulf coast and lower Rio Grande valley. Last year he supported the Hoover...
...this country began more than a hundred and fifty years ago. Dr. Benjamin Rush, chief medical officers of the Continental army, witnessing the havoc wrought by liquor among the soldiers, used all his influence against it, but of course, the standards of the time was against him. Benjamin Franklin threw all the might of his influence against liquor. Washington repeatedly warned his officers to use all their influence to curb drunkenness. Shortly after the revolution several churches took up the question seriously, the Quakers and the Methodists leading the way. Other churches soon, followed, and, from that day to this...
...John Franklin Ebersole, A.M. '09, at present economic advisor and chief of the section of Financial and Economic Research in the Treasury Department, is coming to Cambridge in January to lecture throughout the next half year at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, it was announced at University Hall. He will told the position of Professor of Finance...