Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first occupant of the White House. When Thomas Jefferson was elected to succeed him, Adams was so enraged that he refused to be present at Jefferson's inauguration. (Only other such case: son John Quincy Adams, fifth U. S. President, would not stay to greet incoming President Andrew Jackson.) Quick-tempered, ambitious, vain, John Adams was never personally popular. Short and fat, he was nicknamed "His Rotundity" by Washington wits...
...knew the Mellon family from the first, perhaps his closest friends being the old Judge and his wife. A daughter Sophia married into the Negley family, a member of whom you identify as the founder of the East Liberty Church. Mr. Negley was an uncle of James, Richard and Andrew Mellon...
...read a telegraphic order from Ottawa, last week sent to Andrew Dalziel, Canadian Collector of Customs at Detroit's river neighbor, Windsor, Ont. It meant that Canada had put into effect the law, long sought by U. S. Drys, forbidding export of liquor to the U. S., and requiring other liquor cargoes to post double bond, insurance against U. S. bootlegging. Immediately, Mr. Dalziel closed ten export docks along the Detroit river. Also immediately, 5,000 cases of liquor were ferried across to Detroit 'leggers, who anticipated a temporary shortage...
Many translations followed, each backed by careful reasoning. For more than 90 years the controversy waxed and waned. Not until this year was it conclusively settled, by West Virginia's famed scholar and wit Andrew Price, president of the State Historical Society...
...Evans, discoverer of vitamin E; Professor Charles Atwood Kofoid, celebrated zoölogist, Professor Robert Heinrich Lowie., onetime (1913-21) curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Professor Gilbert Newton Lewis, whose theory of Time-Past and Time-Future may win him the Nobel Prize (TIME, April 28) ; Professor Andrew Cowper Lawson, international geologist, onetime (1914-18) dean of the College of Mining. For his good humor as well as his capabilities, dear to the heart of many a Californian is Professor Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley, pedagog and poetaster ? with whom Governor Clement Calhoun Young once collaborated...