Word: ch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to congratulate you on taking the leadership in expression of disapproval of the "Teachers Oath" Act (Ch. 370, Mass. Laws of 1935). I also approve your decision not to consider the matter of sufficient immediate importance to warrant embarrassing the University administration in view of the course of action it has seen fit to announce. Of course I speak only as an individual colleague, in no other capacity, and with no other authority whatsoever...
...Lamington last week, a tiger-colored, 12-lb., 6-year-old. German-bred, smooth bitch named Amsel v. Holzgarten, trained by her owner, George McKay Schieffelin, made three finds in the final heat, took the trophy. Ch. Heini Flottenberg, who won best of breed at the Westminster Show in 1933, proved himself almost as able in the field as on the bench by taking third in the open all-age stake for dogs. For a field trial championship, a dachshund needs 25 points of which Amsel v. Holzgarten's victory in the Lamington Jagdgebrauch last week brought her seven...
Married. Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, 21, daughter of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham; and Whitney Straight, 22, Manhattan socialite automobile racer; in London, four days after the marriage of her brother, Viscount Maidstone, to Countess Gladys Széchényi (TIME, July...
...Aaron Burr, a Manhattan autograph dealer announced he had acquired from the descendants of Burr's second, William P. Van Ness, the correspondence which led up to the duel. Included was Burr's opening letter wherein he told Hamilton: "I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper. . . . Mr. Van Ness . . . will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention." Hamilton's ironic reply...
Francis I (1494-1547) lived at a lively time. A contemporary of Henry VIII, Erasmus, John Calvin, Rabelais, Machiavelli, he came to the French throne when monarchy meant owning the country. Only 20 when he became king, he found it delightful to be an autocrat. Did he want a château? He built it. A woman? He took her. The Mona Lisa? He bought it. Another province? He raised an army. But his political ambitions ended by embroiling him in a complicated series of expensive wars, and at the battle of Pavia he was captured by the German Emperor...