Word: hiram
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Engaged. Woodbridge Bingham, eldest of Senator Hiram Bingham's (Conn.) seven sons, descendant of three colonial governors; to Ursula Wolcott Griswold, descendant of four Connecticut governors. She is the granddaughter of the late John Sloane, and the late Matthew Griswold; great-granddaughter of Gov. Roger G. Griswold; great-great-granddaughter of Gov. Matthew Griswold. Her father is William E. S. Griswold, potent Manhattan businessman...
...night last week at 2:30 a. m., Mrs. Hiram Johnson, a weary spectator of the filibuster against her husband's Boulder Dam bill, looked down from the Senate gallery on 29 Senators. Some were sprawled out on the lounges, asleep; Floor Leader Curtis and some others were said to have been rolling dice; other Senators, bleary-eyed, were listening to Senator Ashurst of Arizona, who was talking about a number of things...
...President Dawes had left at 10 p. m. and Mr. Moses had done the heavy night work. Early in the morning Mr. Dawes returned. . . . At last, a quorum was present. But the filibusterers* kept the floor, allowed no one to move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill, had sat up all night trying to get a vote. The filibusterers were glad to have other Senators relieve them during the day with debate on Muscle Shoals, alien property and Prohibition bills. At 4:30 p. m., after 28½ hours...
Connecticut--Hiram Bingham, A.M. '01, Ph.D...
...Whiskey. The largest distillery in Canada is Hiram Walker's at Walkerville, across the river from Detroit. It contains 107,000 barrels of old whiskey, the largest matured stock in Canada. All this U. S. investors owned until last week. Then they sold the business to a Toronto group...