Word: addison
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Ambassadors are exchangeable commodities. When Washington announced (TIME, Sept. 8, NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that it was sending Edgar Addison Bancroft to Tokyo as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Tokyo scouted about to find someone to send to Washington as Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. in succession to smiling Ambassador Masanao Hanihara...
...Edgar Addison Bancroft, 66, born at Galesburg, Ill., now living at Chicago, is a descendant of the New England Bancrofts, including Aaron, biographer of George Washington, and George, diplomat and historian. Educated at Knox College and the Columbia University Law School, he has been counsel for the Santa Fe Railway and the International Harvester Co. In the great railway strike of 1894, he obtained the first injunction against the strikers and later helped to send Eugene V. Debs and others to jail for six months. Nevertheless, he is regarded as a liberal in labor matters. He is author of three...
Died. Charles Addison Ferry, 73, designer and builder of the famed Yale Bowl; of heart disease; at New Haven...
...Gary. The carcass was opened, the ribs broken with an ax, the dissection begun. It was found that the elephant had an inflammation of the bowels, but the actual cause of death was a wasting of the body resulting from degeneration of the adrenal glands, a condition called Addison's disease, after the British physician who first described it. One of the prominent symptoms is a bronzing of the skin, but the proverbial thickness of the elephant's hide had prevented this symptom from becoming apparent. The heart of the elephant weighed 75 pounds, and its main blood...
...Arthur Adams, Mrs. Copley Amory, Mrs. G. T. Baldwin, Mrs. C. B. Barnes, Mrs. H. F. Bigelow; Mrs. B. S. Bradford, Mrs. Addison Brown, Mrs. F. L. Bullard, Mrs. LeB. R. Briggs, Mrs. T. J. Coolidge, Mrs. W. E. Crosby, Mrs. Arthur Dubois, Mrs. E. D. Emerson, Mrs. R. T. Fisher, Mrs. Philip Gardener, Mrs. C. W. Gerould, Mrs. W. P. Graves, Mrs. C. N. Greenough, Mrs. C. T. Greve, Mrs. H. S. Grew, Mrs. J. F. Harris, Mrs. W. B. Henry, Mrs. J. H. Hill, Mrs., A. L. Hobson, Mrs. D. C. Holder, Mrs. C. H. Hollister...