Word: ansonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...
...last week there came from the Post Office Department an order withdrawing from the Berengaria, the Ansonia and the Andania, three Cunard Line vessels, all trans-Atlantic mail not specifically addressed to these three vessels. Immediately came protests. The Berengaria crosses the Atlantic in six days. Transfer of its mail to other, slower ships meant that such mail would take from three to six days longer in transit. The Post Office speedily reversed itself, rescinded the order, explained that it had been issued because it had been supposed that the Berengaria would be late in sailing. The rescinding order also...
...decks to be cleared. . . ." What was such inimical action or by whom done, he, prudent, did not state. But it is well known in Montreal, as in Liverpool, that Canadian Pacific operators were vexed at the recent announcement of the Cunard Line that the Cunarders Athenia, Antonia, Ansonia, and Letitia would be reconditioned to carry only tourist third class and third class passengers (a type not very fussy) between English and Canadian ports. Thus the Cunard Line would attract some of the great Canadian Pacific traffic of immigrants from England to Canada. The situation a few years ago would have...
...News board for the year includes Dana T. Bartholomew of Ansonia, Conn., Chairman, G. W. Haight, of Newport, R. I. Business Manager, J. A. Thomas, of Fort Worth, Texas, Managing Editor; R. O. Mitchell, of Minneapolis, Minn., Assignment Editor; E. Davison Jr., of Flint, Mich., Vice Chairman; and L. B. Hockaday, of Evanston, Ill., Assistant Business Manager...
...Ansonia (Conn.) Centinel: "To its plan (the Harvard Crimson's) Tad Jones opposes this earnest enconium of football: 'I believe in football . . . as a developer of manhood, as a developer of all the qualities we admire. . . I hope the time will never come when the time devoted to football at Yale will be any less than it is today.' This is a sufficient reason to both the critics and the meddlers...