Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey went home to Owosso, Mich, (pop. 14,500), to see his mother, Mrs. Anne Dewey.* He insisted his trip had nothing to do with politics. So he spent an hour talking to Iowa's G. O. P. boss, Harrison Spangler, sat up till midnight with Missouri's G. O. P. boss, Barak Mattingly and promised him to speak in St. Louis in October; he shook hands with 200 leading Illinois Republicans; on a high school athletic field he prayed for world peace. Each day he was photographed in every front-porch-campaign pose known to the prosaic...
...even the University of Washington's Professor of Zoology Melville Harrison Hatch knew whether the Seattle firefly colony would survive, perhaps spread to other West Coast areas. They will keep on hatching and flashing for a few weeks, mate, lay eggs and die. Then it is up to the eggs...
Then overworked Joe Robinson died, and Franklin Roosevelt played straight into McNary's hands by his choice of bumbling "Dear Alben" Barkley over Pat Harrison for his new Leader. Next came the attempted Purge, another stroke of political amateurishness. McNary grew almost profane when restless men like Vandenberg talked openly of an open coalition with the conservative Democrats whom Roosevelt was trying to read out. He encouraged his followers to go to ball games with Jack Garner, Pat Harrison and other time-biders, but kept them from doing anything that might revive loyalty to the Democratic label...
Convalescing in a Manhattan hospital from near-fatal peritonitis, popular ex-Fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey was snowed under by more than 2,000 telegrams, visited by Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, roundly bussed by Daughters Barbara and Rose...
...rest: Robert Chambers of New York University; Irving Widmer Bailey of Harvard; Herbert Spencer Jennings of Johns Hopkins; Richard Benedikt Goldschmidt and Charles Atwood Kofoid of the University of California; Charles Manning Child and Cornelis Barnardus van Niel of Stanford; Ross Granville Harrison of Yale; Hugo Theorell of the University of Stockholm; Olenus Lee Sponsler of the University of California at Los Angeles; Lewis Victor Heilbrunn of the University of Pennsylvania; John Desmond Bernal of the University of London. **Including Grew, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Wolff, Mirbel, Lamarck, Dutrochet, Meyen, von Mohl, Brown, Purldnje, Brogniart, Braur, Turpin, Dumortier...