Word: buren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time there were no public defaulters, no corrupt army contracts, and nothing resembling the present oil scandals.. Instead of building up a colossal debt like Lincoln, Tyler reduced the one that came to him, and administered the government on one fourth less expense than his predecessor, Van Buren...
...Hoover as could take such trifling seriously, soon showed that if the 14-year residency required could disqualify Mr. Hoover, then the following U. S. Presidents, all of whom lived abroad within 14 years of taking office, were illegally elected: John Adams, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan...
...learned, scholastic doctors of Leyden University were titillated last week by an announcement that "Mejuffrouw* Louise Van Buren" will began to study at Leyden next September, majoring in Dutch law and literature. Mejuffrow Louise, 18, is not unknown or unbeloved in Leyden. Her great ancestor, William of Orange, founded the University, 352 years ago. Her mother was created an honorary doctor of laws at Leyden (TIME, March 23, 1925). But next September all that is to be officially forgotten. By order of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her only daughter, Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 18, will...
...approbation greeted "tapping" of Lawrence M. Noble of Syracuse, N. Y., first man chosen by Skull and Bones; of Guy Richards of Woodmere, N. Y., first man for Scroll and Key; of John C. Lord of Tarrytown, N. Y., first man for Wolf's Head; and of Van Buren Taliaferro of Manhattan, first for Elihu Club. The even greater honors of being 15th and last man "tapped" for the four societies (in the order named) fell respectively to Philip W. Bunnell of Scranton, Pa., Hannibal Hamlin of Brooklyn, James G. Butler of Hartford, Conn., and George F. Scherer...
...best biography since Beveridge's Life of John Marshall" (Critic Thomas L. Masson) and "an admirable record of a great life, which all physicians, medical students and those who intend to study medicine should read, and with which all habitual readers of biographies should be delighted" (Critic Van Buren Thome...