Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presently revealed himself as maintaining at his own expense two large hospitals for Chinese wounded and establishing a third. "No mention has been made of this publicly before in the face of the gallantry of our soldiers in giving life and limb for their country," said Mr. Soong, brother-in-law of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. "To try to snatch credit from our soldiers would be indecent...
Southern football spectacularly emerged from obscurity in 1906 when the late Dan McGugin, brother-in-law and onetime pupil of Michigan's great Fielding H. Yost, coached a team at Vanderbilt University which scored a 4-to-o victory over the football sensation of the age, Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indians. It emerged again after the War when Centre College, an almost unheard of institution of 200 students at Danville, Ky. flared up briefly with All-America Quarterback Bo McMillin* and upset a string of topflight U. S. teams...
...missionary bent. From 1899 until 1923, save for a period when he was a major in the A. E. F., he served in the Orient, part of the time as Episcopal Bishop of Kyoto, Japan, and president of St. Paul's College, Tokyo. In 1923 he succeeded his brother, Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., as theology professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, was elected Virginia's bishop coadjutor in 1926. Said he, surprised at his election last week: "I do hope we may all unitedly go forward to the equalization of the great missionary task which Our Lord...
Hustrated also are scenes from productions by one of the greatest of all American actors, Edwin Booth. Booth played the part of Richard II very few times and in this connection there is an interesting story. It was claimed that the reason he seldom portrayed Ricahrd was that his brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln the night he was playing that particular part. This fact gave him an aversion to the role. This has since been disproved and it is not now thought to be true...
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...