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...sturdy wooden box, and Tiffany & Co. of Manhattan was the firm which was chosen to envelop the button, hair, braid and ring in suitable magnificence. Last week Japanese were pleased & honored to receive these four gifts, be cause all are authentic mementoes of intrepid U. S. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858), who opened up Japan to Occidental influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Priceless Gifts | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...American name. Oliver Hazard Perry made American history with his famous phrase, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," after his defeat of the British squadron on Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. His distinguished brother performed an even greater act when on July 7, 1853, Matthew Calbraith Perry entered in his flagship, the Mississippi, Kurihama in the Bay of Yeddo in Japan, opening that great nation to western com merce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...summary: ALL STARS. SEWANEE-VANDERBILT. Williams, l.e. r.e., Blake Crumpacker, l.t. r.t., Hasslock, Stone Parks, l.g. r.g., Smith Long, c. c., Schultz Hoar, Hann, r.g. l.g., McGugin Fish, r.t. l.t., Falkenberry, Hager Calbraith, r.e. l.e., Stewart, Hayes Galatti, q.b. q.b., Browne Moore, l.h.b. r.h.b., Neely Pfeiffer, r.h.b. l.h.b., Douglass White, f.b. f.b., Edgerton, Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL-STARS' SOUTHERN TRIP | 1/3/1911 | See Source »

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