Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie's longtime steelmaking partner, died in 1919, he left his great art collection, his impressive Manhattan home and one of the few private lawns on Fifth Avenue to his widow for her lifetime, with the provision that thereafter it should become a public museum. The Widow Frick has been dead since 1931 and the Frick Museum is not yet ready for the public...
...Brooklyn, as he was being led into a slaughter depot, Julius, oldtime brewery horse, snapped his rope halter and dashed in front of a truck to his death. "Suicide," said the magistrate. "Julius was high strung,'' said Owner Andrew Smith...
...findings of Professor Paul Andrew Witty of Northwestern University: 47 schoolboys among 14,149 and 48 schoolgirls among 13,493 were found to have IQ's of 140 or better...
...Strawn (U. S. Chamber of Commerce), Henry I. Harriman (U. S. Chamber of Commerce), Clinton Lloyd Bardo (Manufacturers Association), Lewis H. Brown (Johns-Manville), Paul W. Litchfield (Goodyear Tires), Charles Bismark Ames (Texas Corp.), Ernest T. Weir (National Steel), Walter Jodok Kohler (of Kohler), George Harrison Houston (Baldwin Locomotives), Andrew Wells Robertson (Westinghouse) and 79 others. They were all rehearsing to extend the glad hand of friendship to the New Deal...
...father [Congressman Maecenas Eason Benton] was a lawyer and politician. He came from Tennessee shortly after the Civil War, riding a horse and knocking the snakes out of his path with a long stick. He was a great-nephew of Thomas Hart Benton, the Senator from Missouri and Andrew Jackson's lieutenant. My family table talk was entirely devoted to law and politics. Southwest Missouri was, and is yet in those parts in which the automobile road has not penetrated, a backwoods country with a characteristic backwoods culture. Turkey shoots, country school hoedowns, hunting (possum, squirrel, quail and other small...