Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grew, a "career" man, has been in the foreign service for 24 years, in Egypt, Mexico City, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Berlin, Vienna, Berne, Copenhagen. He has been Minister to Denmark and to Switzerland, was Secretary of the American Peace Commission at Versailles, negotiated the Lausanne Treaty (not ratified by the Senate) with the Turkish Nationalist Government. It was also announced that Robert E. Olds, Assistant Secretary of State, would succeed Mr. Grew as Under Secretary of State. Mr. Olds was once law partner of Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg...
...Hotel Manhattan Square, Manhattan, served to prove U. S. chess brains are currently inferior to foreign. First prize ($2,000) in the International Chess Masters' Tournament was awarded to Jose R. Capablanca, Havana; second ($1,500) to Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Paris; third ($1,000) to Aron Nimzowitch, Copenhagen. Frank J. Marshall, New York, lone U. S. entry, had continuous difficulty with his cerebellum; finished last among the careful movers...
...belonged to Dr. Frederick A. Cook and over the coffee cups, on that morning in 1909, they began his undoing. Mr. Gibbs, convinced that Dr. Cook was a liar and that he had never reached the North Pole, wired the Daily Chronicle seven columns to that ef fect. Meanwhile, Copenhagen received Dr. Cook with cheers and medals, wined and dined him. All the world applauded. But later evidence, including Robert E. Peary's return from the North Pole with news that he had found nothing to show that Dr. Cook had been there, proved that wary Reporter Gibbs...
...catastrophical decisions. What kind of etiquette had this been? Dr. Lasker's answer was published while six international mentalities were vying in the annual chess masters' tournament in Manhattan. José Capablanca, was in the lead as was his custom, until he tied with Aron Nimzowitch of Copenhagen...
...circle, stood in the centre, set them off. Died. Lucy Maynard Salmon, 73, ranking professor at Vassar, who created the History Department in 1887; at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Died. Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, 85, historian-critic, Danish Jew, "Dean of European culture"; following an intestinal operation, in Copenhagen. He criticized the Danish government for its reactionary tendencies, the Church for its formalism, the University of Copenhagen for its intolerant dogmatism; was exiled in 1877. Invited to return in 1883 he became popular, especially for his humanized history. In 1914 he was exhausted by a brief but strenuous visit...