Word: pennington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Justice Department continued to wrangle, FBI made a feeble attempt to get back into the E. Phillips Oppenheim area of romance, international intrigue and slinky sirens. At a dinner of the National Stevedores Association,* in Washington, one of G-Man Hoover's assistants, Inspector L. R. Pennington, "bared" a "girl spy plot." The stalwart inspector alleged that "a prominent society woman from a totalitarian country" had plotted to hire beautiful but subversive girls, had rented a house in Washington, was ready to install elaborate gambling facilities. Army, Navy, State Department officials were to be lured there, seduced by roulette...
Inspector Pennington named no names, did not say any arrests had been made. He contented himself with a policemanly remark that the plot had been "nipped in the bud." The G-Man's story fell with a dull thud. Mr. Dies zoomed on to more lectures, bigger raids...
...Lesile T. Pennington, Minister of the First Church in Cambridge, (Unitarian...
Malcolm Donald '99, Frederick M. Eliot '10, Samuel A. Eliot '84, Erland F. Fish 05, Allan Forbes '97, F. Murray Forbes, Jr. '24, Channing Fronthingham '02, J. Pennington Gardiner '29, Courad Hobbs '99, Llewellyn Howland '97, Jerome A. Johnson '18, Carl T. Keller '93, George C. Lee, Jr. '21, Raiph Lowell...
...Mary Engle Pennington, 67, Manhattan consultant: the Francis P. Garvan Gold Medal, established by the late head of the Chemical Foundation to honor U. S. women chemists. Born in Nashville, Mary Pennington took her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, got fellowships there and at Yale, ran the chemistry lab in a women's college, went into public clinical and bacteriological service, headed American Balsa Co.'s research and development division, finally organized her own business. "Dr. Pennington," said her citation, "is ranked among the foremost authorities on the refrigeration and handling of milk, flesh foods, eggs...