Word: ross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Martin O'Leary, Ernest Ross, David Miller, Fred Fisher, wanted for the murder of Policeman Ray Martin, a decoy in the Louis Blumenthal kidnaping and extortion plot...
Water in gasoline supplied him at one of his refueling stops, and not storms in themselves, forced Captain Ross G. Hoyt down and led to his crash on his 8,500-mi. New York-Nome-New York flight, he reported to the War Department last week...
...Author. Cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newsgatherer, fingerprint expert at a penitentiary, college professor (Smith, Simmons), social worker (with Jane Addams in Chicago), are some of the things Thames (pronounced Tahm'-ez) Ross Williamson has been. Besides novels he has written textbooks on economics, sociology. His novels (Stride of Man, Run Sheep Run, Gypsy Down the Lane) are meant to constitute a U. S. panorama. He was born on an Indian Reservation near Genesee, Iowa, 35 years ago of U. S. parentage...
...this conference went many a famed church-unionist and several non-unionists. Among famed churchmen present were Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson. President of Princeton Theological Seminary; Yale's Divinity Dean Luther Allan Weigle; Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, editor-in-chief of the Christian Herald; Dr. William Adams Brown, Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, who recently married Col. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow; Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Outstanding among laymen were Swarthmore's Philosopher-Professor Jesse Herman Holmes and President Frank...
Princeton. Convening in St. Paul, the 141st Presbyterian General Assembly settled the four-year fight over the management of Princeton Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout...