MORRISON, George Washington, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Fairlee, Orange County, Vt., October 16, 1809; attended the common schools and Thetford (Vt.) Academy; engaged in…
Senate Years of Service: 1991-1992Party: RepublicanSEYMOUR, John, a Senator from California; born in Chicago, Ill., December 3, 1937; attended the public schools in Mt. Lebanon, Pa.; served in…
SHANNON, Thomas, (brother of Wilson Shannon), a Representative from Ohio; born in Washington County, Pa., November 15, 1786; attended the public schools; moved to Ohio with his parents, who…
(Encyclopedia) Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892–1962, American physicist, b. Wooster, Ohio, grad. College of Wooster (B.S., 1913), Ph.D. Princeton, 1916. He was professor and head of the department of…
(Encyclopedia) colorization, motion picture, electronic process that uses computers to add color to black-and-white movies, creating new colored videotape versions. Invented by Canadians Wilson…
(Encyclopedia) Jeans, Sir James Hopwood, 1887–1946, English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was professor of applied mathematics at Princeton (1905–9), later lectured at Cambridge (1910–…
(Encyclopedia) Merchant Adventurers, name given originally to all merchants in England who engaged in export trade, but later applied to loosely organized groups of merchants in the major ports…
(Encyclopedia) McReynolds, James ClarkMcReynolds, James Clarkməkrĕnˈəldz [key], 1862–1946, U.S. Attorney General (1913–14) and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1914–41), b. Elkton, Ky. He…
(Encyclopedia) Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871–1937, U.S. Secretary of War (1916–21), b. Martinsburg, W.Va. He practiced law and politics in Cleveland as a protégé of Tom L. Johnson. As city solicitor (…
