Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Edward Alexander Wester-marck, 76, Finnish sociologist, a bachelor who was a world-famed authority on marriage ; in Lapinlahti, Finland. No medieval moralist, Dr. Westermarck championed the single standard for marriage, tilted against companionate marriage, polygamy, adultery, homosexuality. His concluding sentence in the first editions of The History of Human Marriage won him honorary vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization...
...stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This 57-year-old Christian Scientist, a bachelor, secretary of the Rhodes Trust since 1925. War-time secretary to David Lloyd George, and reputedly a writer of much of the Versailles Treaty, was the new British Ambassador...
...adolescents in a fleet of truckbusses, led, for cash, by Mr. Rose. Before granting the license, the ICC thought it wise to have a good look at Clarence Young Rose and the Georgia Caravan Camps Inc. Its findings: Clarence Young Rose is a big handsome 51-year-old bachelor from Atlanta. His friends call him a "terrific salesman." It was in that role, nine years ago, that Mr. Rose organized his first traveling educational institution, and by 1938 it was something of a success. If not typical, that year's junket was at least interesting. Into ten Chevrolet trucks...
Edward Gearing Kemp for Joseph Keenan as special assistant to the Attorney General. Mr. Kemp, 52, and like Mr. Murphy a bachelor, is from St. Clair, Mich. He was with Mr. Murphy in the Philippines...
...gymnasium is a memorial to son Joseph, killed in a plane crash). By this year's end, air-minded Bishop Sheil expects to have three more big runways, a 180-acre improved landing field, an approved CAA flying school rating and an Illinois State license to confer Bachelor of Science degrees on his first graduating class in 1940. Current expense money comes partly from Holy Name's own farm produce, partly from the coffers of the Catholic Youth Organization (also founded by Bishop Sheil...