Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barrman, armed with a gun and a bottle, terrorized the crew for three drunken days. The Countess asked Captain Hoffmann as a favor to her to shoot one Ben ("Bugsy") Siegal, who she feared had evil intentions. When a seaman named Bonelli misbehaved, Hoffmann shackled him to the anchor chain. Last straw: a gale blew away most of the rigging. An Italian motorship towed them to port...
...Jacob Ruppert a magic name in baseball. In 1923, after a squabble, he bought out Partner Huston for $1,200,000. Same year he opened the $2,500,000 Yankee Stadium. He paid record salaries ($80,000 to Babe Ruth one season), built up the most extensive, most expensive chain of farm teams in the country...
...article in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, Clifford K. Shipton '26, Custodian of the Harvard University Archives, gives an amusing account of the chain of Saltonstalls that have periodically lent their name to the directory of Students of Harvard. "Our Harvard Saltonstalls," he calls them. In fact at the World's Columbian Exposition one of the Harvard exhibits was the Saltonstall family tree...
Unfortunately for either Harvard or the Saltonstalls, the chain is not complete, for Harvard was not here when the first family immigrant, Sir Richard, came over. His son Henry graduated in the first Harvard class, whence he went back and became a fellow at Oxford. His nephew Nathaniel graduated in 1659, Nathaniel's son Richard II in 1695, Richard III in 1722, Richard IV in 1751. All four of these carried the escutcheon of justice in Haverhill...
...chain does not stop where Mr. Shipton has left off, however, for the pages of the directory are now graced with the name of Leverett IV, a member of the Class of 1939. His family have set a precedent which he will have to maintain...