Word: boer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Hays Hammond of Gloucester and Washington, Chairman of the U. S. Coal Commission. He has had a unique career in mining engineering and finance. For a time he was in South Africa and led the reform movement in the Transvaal. During the Boer War he was sentenced to death, later committed to life imprisonment and finally released on payment of a fine of $125,000. He attended the coronation of George V as special Ambassador and Representative of President Taft...
Always a great lover of England, Mr. Van Alen equipped a Red Cross ambulance for the British Army during the Boer War and served in it himself. He was made a Knight of the British Division of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. His passion for things English earned him many an accusation of Anglomania in his own country...