Word: bergh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson defensemen, goalie Put Williams, and fullback Harden-bergh were selected to defend the mythical all star team. Hardenbergh was rated the "standout fullback of the season...
...year 1864 one Henry Bergh, son of a wealthy New York shipbuilder, returned to the U. S. from a consulship in St. Petersburg thoroughly disgusted with the way Russians abused animals, thoroughly determined that there should be no such abuse in the U. S. Taking his inspiration from "Humanity" Martin, he lined up John Jacob Astor, Peter Cooper, other prominent New Yorkers, in 1866 founded in New York the first A. S. P. C. A. From the New York Legislature he secured a charter granting its officers the power of arrest and the privilege of licensing dogs, in return...
Until his death in 1888 Henry Bergh stumped the U. S. lecturing on humanitarianism, urging others to set up their own local organizations. In 1877 John G. Shortall, president of the Illinois Humane Society, called a meeting in Cleveland to co-ordinate those organizations, formed the American Humane Association. Last week the American Humane Society held its 50th anniversary meeting in Milwaukee, Wis., and did honor to Henry Bergh...
...Henry Bergh's New York A. S. P. C. A. was the father of all U. S. be-kind-to-animals organizations, but it is now brother to nearly 500 of them, of which the American Humane Association is general supervisor and propaganda force...
Defense, Shortly after Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx with $20 of the Lind bergh ransom money in his pocket, Anna Hauptmann fell into the hands of one Harry Whitney, who has since described himself as the Hauptmanns' "business manager." At first Hauptmann refused to have any lawyer, discarding several of his wife's selection. By the end of his first week's imprisonment, however, he had agreed to retain James M. Fawcett of Brooklyn. It was Lawyer Fawcett who unsuccessfully fought Governor Lehman's extradition warrant before The Bronx County Supreme Court...