Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The memorial to Lionel de Jersey Harvard, first of his name to attend the college his ancestor founded, is a fitting acknowledgment of a graceful gesture on the part of the young Englishman who upheld the glory of his name in the Great War. It should serve as a reminder...
Married. James Russell Lowell, great-grandson of Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell; third-cousin-once-removed of President A, Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell;* to Julia Brokaw, direct descendant of Bourgon Broucard,? French Huguenot exile, who sought refuge in America in 1675; in...
¶ Upheld the constitutionality of the California Syndicalism Act in the case of Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney. Miss Whitney had been convicted (1920) of violating the Syndicalism Act in assisting in the organization of the California Communist Labor Party. The court ruled that the Syndicalism Act could not be called...
¶While Foreign Minister Chen and the more radical Nationalist politicians were busy replying to notes at Hankow, the Nationalist Generalissimo, Chiang Kaishek, suddenly called a meeting of conservative Nationalists at Nanking. They voted to impeach the whole Nationalist Cabinet at Hankow on the ground that it is "Red," sparing...
Married. Alice Frances Hammond, daughter of John Henry Hammond, lawyer-banker; great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; niece of Ogden Haggerty Hammond, U. S. Ambassador to Spain; to George Arthur Victor Duckworth, grandson of the late John Campbell Campbell (1779-1861) onetime Lord Chancellor of England, descendant of Plantagenets...