Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rzburg, Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen was on the threshold of discovering the X ray, with scarcely a glimmering of the wonderful and terrible world of radioactivity that lay beyond. At Washington's Smithsonian Institution, itself only 46 years old, a 23-year-old instrument maker named Andrew Kramer applied for a job. Secretary Samuel P. Langley hired him on trial, that October day in 1892, to equip his astrophysical observatory. Last week, the 30-day trial having strung out to 61 years, Andrew Kramer, 84, resigned his post. He had served the U.S. Government longer than any employee...
...Andrew Kramer's first instrument shop was set up in the Smithsonian's stable, which he shared with a taxidermist and Dr. Langley's horse and buggy. There he set up his footpower lathe, forge, anvil and other primitive equipment; there he made metal parts for Langley's much-derided airplane (which almost but not quite flew, before the Wrights'); and there he built fine instruments as no one else could...
With reference to the June 1 item on the death of Andrew Jackson IV, great-grandson of President Andrew Jackson: Andrew Jackson "IV" was my mess sergeant in World War I, and I seem to remember that he explained his name to me as some adoption, saying that he was not a lineal descendant of the seventh President...
...have always understood that Andrew Jackson had no children...
...Reader Longstreet (a lineal descendant of Confederate Hero General James Longstreet) is right. His old mess sergeant was the descendant of Andrew Jackson Jr., who was adopted at birth by Old Hickory and his wife Rachel...