Word: danae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Hitchcock Sr. was Louise Eustis of New Orleans. Her husband, third son of a Thomas Hitchcock who worked on the editorial staff of the New York Sun under Charles Dana, was one of the young Newport sports of 1886 who organized and played on the first U. S. international team. She started her son Thomas playing as soon as he was old enough to swing a mallet. She helped young Douglas Burden and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to learn the game...
Last week the President of the U. S. appointed a Minister to Haiti. He is Dana Gardner Munro, 38, studious son of that scholarly father, Princeton's Professor of Medieval History, Dr. Dana Carleton Munro. Young Minister Munro is an engaging, gentle diplomat, chief of the Department of State's Division of Latin-American Affairs, author of an authoritative book on Central America...
...well with his easy-going tropical hosts is suggested by a story told on him in Washington. Invited to dinner at the White House, he and Mrs. Munro arrived 30 min. late, were advised by Chief Usher Ike Hoover to dine elsewhere. On another occasion, dilatory Dana Munro arrived late with a speech-of-state which he had prepared for the President to deliver...
...Confirmed the nomination of Dana Gardner Munro to be Minister to Haiti...
Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, on his way to Chicago from London, stopped off at the Lawrenceville School, in New Jersey; wore cap & gown at commencement exercises (he is a trustee of the school) ; saw his adopted son, Dana McCutcheon Dawes, 18, graduated; lunched at "Dawes House,"* erected by him in memory of his son, Rufus, who was drowned...