Word: dickinson
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Died. Luren Dudley Dickinson, 84, God-fearing Michigan Republican, seven times Lieutenant Governor, onetime Governor; of a heart attack; at his farm home in Charlotte, Mich. In 1939 he aroused the righteous, got nationwide snickers by suspecting that rum-plying white-slavers were busy at the Governors' Conference in Albany. He called what he saw there and in New York City a "Belshazzar's Feast." The cadaverous Methodist crusader spent most of his Governor's term listening through his "pipeline to God," was a lifelong inveigher against the evils of tobacco, gambling, alcohol, dancing...
Died. Colonel Clinton Roy Dickinson, 54, longtime chief editorialist of the advertising world, short-story writer, for the past year executive assistant to Draft Director Hershey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Through advertising's No. 1 tradepaper, Printers' Ink, Editor Dickinson plumped for honesty, dignity, decency in advertising, was an influential booster and lambaster...
...there is reason for her flowers and landscapes to be considered as symbols of the unconscious, her gigantic Black Cross, New Mexico] might suggest extreme asceticism. All of O'Keeffe's work, utterly original, has graphic cleanliness, economy, purity, a lyric quality suggesting that of Poetess Emily Dickinson...
Northwest was started in 1926 by the late Charles D. Dickinson, a red-faced, white-whiskered eccentric who made a fortune in the seed business, was affectionately called "Pop" and "Santa Claus" by airmen because he spent the last years of his life and much of his fortune angeling flying ventures. Aviation Bug Dickinson toyed with Northwest for a spell, lost so much money he turned it over to a group of Minneapolis-St. Paul-Chicago financiers. They did better: in 1927 Northwest had a prosperous Twin Cities-Chicago run, in 1928 spread to Winnipeg. Then Northwest picked up tough...
Rounding out the Saturday morning program was a discussion of "The Controlled Materials Plan as an Aid to War Production," by E. T. Dickinson, executive director of the planning committee...