Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detail, however, the author's cocky memory tricked him. He refers to "a legend that a Mr. Astor, a cattle merchant, fed his stock great quantities of water just before he drove them to market. . . . His 'watered stock' made him rich." The trickster was the late unctuous, sniveling Daniel Drew, the cattle-watering one of the simplest and earliest of his many business rogueries...
Married, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 70, Marquess of Reading, onetime Viceroy of India; and Stella Charnaud, 37, his secretary; in London. In 1918 Lord Reading was special ambassador to the U. S. His first wife died...
...Died, Daniel Read Anthony Jr., 60, onetime Congressman from the first Kansas district, after a ten day illness; near Leavenworth, Kan. A nephew of the late fiery Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony, he had served as Representative longer (1907-29) than any other Kansan...
...Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire marched into the White House, invited President Hoover to dedicate next year a memorial at Franklin, N. H. to mark Daniel Webster's sesquicentennial. The President hemmed & hawed, would promise nothing. Then Senator Moses asked for a contribution to the memorial fund. Promptly President Hoover signed a check for $100. Before going to the Navy Department to get another $100 subscription from Secretary Adams, the Senator issued this bit of mosaic. ''It's not in the cards to take the Republican nomination away from President Hoover...
...Wolfe and Montcalm, of the storming of the Plains of Abraham, you will be disappointed; the story does not move that far (Quebec fell in 1759). There is not so much as an Indian fight and even the deeds of pioneering derring do are all messengered action. Explorers Daniel du Lhut, Robert Cavelier de la Salle are mentioned, but they are only names. Heroine of this quiet tale of a quiet time is a little girl, Cécile Auclair, and nothing happens to her except that she and her apothecary father do not return to France after...