Word: glessner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dream Highway (Harrisburg to Pittsburgh). This meant that farmers in Somerset County, who do spare-time work on the roads for extra cash, had to join the union and pay $15 initiation fees in order to get jobs. Six-foot, two-inch Farmer Victor Glessner organized his fellows, smashed the union's county headquarters, ran two organizers away, had another indicted for waving a pistol at protesting ruralites. Having effectively opened the closed shop, Farmer Glessner & friends then organized the Somerset County Independents, vowed to keep the job closed to unions...
...BIRTH OF CHINA-Herrlee Glessner Creel-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.75). History of Chinese civilization from 1,400 to 600 B.C., endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution's Carl Whiting Bishop as "the best, the most comprehensive, and the most pleasantly readable account yet published...
...George Howard Monks Fund" 25,000.00 Sundry other subscriptions of under $5,000.00 each 2,100.00 Total for the Dental School $415,195.22 (2) For the establishment of a Graduate School of Public Administration: Lucius N. Littauer '78 2,000,000.00 (3) For Legal Medicine: Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee, to establish "The George Burgess Magrath Endowment for Legal Medicine" 250,000.00 (4) Gifts for miscellaneous purposes: Henry Bluestone '06 5,400.00 Sundry other subscriptions of under $5,000.00 each 2,625.00 Total miscellaneous subscriptions 8,025.00 Total subscriptions "in recognition of or in connection with" the Terrentenary...
...following remarks were made by President Conant and Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee, of Litticton, N. H., at the dedication of the new George Burgess Magrath Library of Legal Medicine at the Faculty Club, Harvard Medical School at 4 o'clock yesterday. Mrs. Lee is the donor of the library, which contains one thousand volumes on legal medicine and is unique in the United States. Mrs. Lee in 1932 founded the chair of Legal Medicine at the Medical School, which is held by Dr. George Burgess Magrath, Professor of Legal Medicine and Medical Examiner for Suffolk County...
Dedication of the new George Burgess Magrath Library of Legal Medicine of its kind in the United States, will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Faculty Club of the Harvard Medical School. President Conant, and Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee, of Littleton, N. H., the donor, will speak...