Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walked into the executive offices of Governess "Ma" Ferguson in a businesslike manner. He had a right to walk in with self-confidence, for he was a leader of the friends of the Governess last spring in securing the passage of a bill which restored to her husband the civil rights which he lost when as Governor he was impeached and removed from office...
...Shenandoah Court be discharged or that he be allowed to appear in court for his client, was last week answered by Rear Admiral Edward H. Campbell, Judge Advocate General. Admiral Campbell pointed out that Mrs. Lansdowne was a witness not a defendant before the Court, and that neither in civil nor in military cases is a witness entitled to be represented by counsel. He added that if Mrs. Lansdowne or Mr. Davies had objections to the propriety of the Court's procedure, a statement could be made to the Navy Department to be taken under consideration when the report...
...ambiguity: Nathan or Oscar Solomon? It was neither, it was Simon William (S. W. Straus & Co., "no loss to any investor for 43 years") and his day was the biggest: $1,020,193. He sprang, like the famed Gimbels, from Indiana, having been born in Ligonier just after the Civil War. Soon thereafter his father established in Chicago one of the greatest bond businesses in history. Now a gilded doorway struts into uptown Fifth Avenue, proclaiming the sweep of the Straus enterprises. It is in Manhattan that Simon William functions as President. He is known to have bought pearls...
...Ambassador to Great Britain; at Rio de Janeiro. He was married in 1912, at the Manhattan home of Judge Elbert H. Gary, to Mrs. Elizabeth Pell Hearn (widow of A. H. Hearn, dry goods) by famed Mayor Gaynor and Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, who performed respectively, the civil and religious ceremonies...
Died. J. Randolph Coolidge, 97, last of the great-grandsons of Thomas Jefferson, in Boston. He was the oldest Harvard alumnus, a Law School classmate ('54) of the late Joseph H. Choate. He prepared himself for a civil engineer, but undermined his health by work on some of the earliest railroads of Virginia. After studying law, he was unable to practice on account of deafness. His later days were spent in the study of international affairs. His surviving sons are Archibald Gary Coolidge, famed Harvard Professor and Editor of Foreign Affairs; J. Randolph Coolidge Jr., able architect; John Gardner...