Word: anson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrews, a most painstaking and diligent student of American colonial history has here combined a series of lectures given in the Anson G. Phelps Lectureship on Early American History at New York University. In taking this view of the settlements and those who made them, the author defends his plan in the Preface by saying that "The men who founded the colonies were Englishmen, the incentives that impelled them to migrate were English in their origin and the forms of colonial life and government they set up were reproductions or modifications of institutions already established and conditions already prevailing...
...these groin punches that mar an otherwise pretty exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom she had slaved away her youth so that he could go to medical school, then fill his father's shoes as local doctor. When Anson turned up on schedule. Anna even had a wife picked out for him. Not unnaturally, Anson resented having his sister...
Married. William Roger Burlingame, writer, son of the late Edward Livermore Burlingame, first and longtime (1887-1914) editor of Scribner's Magazine, grandson of Lincoln's Minister to China, Anson Burlingame; and Angeline Davis (Ann Watkins), Manhattan book & play broker; in Syosset...
...year. It was the Edward L. Doheny Junior Memorial Library, built with $1,100,000 donated from their many millions by Mr. & Mrs. Doheny Senior, Mrs. Leigh Battson, who is "Ned" Doheny's widow, and his children Lucy Estelle, Edward III, William Henry, Patrick Anson, Timothy Michael. After many a speech, U. S. C.'s President von Kleinsmid accepted the keys to the great bronze doors of the Library, largest yet to be cast in the West. Then the visitors inspected coppered, acoustic-plastered ceilings and rubber-tiled floors; the main reading room...
...Typical of a chairman who uses his position as a rostrum is voluble Charles Michael Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Corp. Examples of well-known chairmen who have retired into the position are Charles Sumner Woolworth, 75, and Henry Holiday Timken. 64. Some chairmanships are frankly nominal. Such is James Anson Campbell's position as "chairman emeritus" of Youngstown Sheet & Tube and George O. Knapp's as "honorary chairman" of Union Carbide. Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr. is "honorary board chairman" of General Electric while the real chairmanship is held by active Owen D. Young, also chairman of the executive committee...