Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of California, will deliver the annual Cutler Lectures on preventive medicine this year. They will be given at the Harvard Medical School, Amphitheatre Building E. on Monday and Tuesday, April 27 and 28, at 5 0'clock; and on Tuesday at 8.15 0'clock at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston...
...Harrar in Somaliland, whence no white man had ever returned; searching for the source of the Nile (his companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such...
...religionist has been shrewd in obtaining and holding wealth for his church. Others have been canny in their personal affairs as well. Unfortunate was the bucket-shopping of Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (TIME, May 26 et seq.) But remarkable were the financial coups of Brigham Young who took unto himself the great monopolies of the Desert, tolls on gates and roads, timber rights. The late Benjamin ("King") Purnell of the House of David, at Benton Harbor, Mich, across Lake Michigan from Zion City, took unto himself and his Queen Mary the rights to some...
Married. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, sculptor, painter, grandson of the late Mormon Brigham Young; and Dorothy Weir, painter, daughter of the late Portraitist Julian Alden Weir...
Double Engagement. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, 53, sculptor, painter, etcher, grandson of the late great Mormon Brigham Young; and Dorothy Weir, painter, daughter of the late Julian Alden Weir, famed portrait painter...