Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voltairian scorching. Said Mr. Reed: "Mr. President, I do not know that we shall gain anything by prolonging a discussion of this kind. I am sorry it has occurred. So that I may remove all taint of suspicion that I speak from interested motives, I remark that I was born and reared in the Presbyterian faith. . . . I do not propose to interfere with the efforts of the Executive to protect the interests of the United States until and unless it becomes manifest that he is pursuing a dangerous course. . . . Sir, I do not believe we are in danger...
...Houston was born in 1793, to Texas...
...born at Hofweier, County of Offenberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. His father, a prosperous brewer, came to the U. S. in 1857. George Ehret learned his trade young. He knew all about brewing and cooperage when he went to work for Anton Hupfel in Manhattan. In six years he became Hupfel's master brewer, and Hupfel lent him enough money, combined with what he had saved, to start a brewery of his own. George Ehret called it the Hell Gate Brewery. It was his ambition to make the best lager beer in the U. S. Fire...
...time president of the New York Board of Trade, nephew of Isidor and Nathan Straus; in Manhattan. The chair of American History, Civilization and Letters, at the Sorbonne, Paris, which was to be inaugurated last week, was Mr. Kohns' gift in memory of his grandfather Lazarus Straus, who although born in France, was made a German citizen after the formation of the Rhenish Palatinate...
...Born on April Fifth...