Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society of Mayflower Descendants of the State of New York bestowed upon President Roosevelt its first annual gold medal for being the "most outstanding Mayflower descendant residing in New York in 1933." More famed for his Dutch ancestry, the President can claim Mayflower descent in 16 lines from no less than ten passengers: Richard Warren, Francis Cook, John Cook, Mr. & Mrs. John Tilley and Elizabeth Tilley, John Howland, Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Allerton and Mary Allerton...
...danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...
...York Times Pulitzer prizewinner, announced that it was a "major event" in the Berlin season. There were plenty of speeches and after the concert thirsty bandsmen joined in a great Bierabend. Milwaukee's bandsmen downed stein for stein, many of them spoke German and 50% were of German descent...
...possibility of a European war still seemed reasonably acute last week. In Bermuda, Dr. William Beebe made a record descent into the ocean. Back from Honolulu. President Roosevelt had barely time to catch his breath before he was immersed in currency problems of grave consequence to all U. S. citizens. Such matters as these received attention from the U. S. Press last week but less attention than something which happened in a small room on the first floor of Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore...
...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manulana Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram, 67-year-old Sultan of Sulu, ruler in the 25th generation of a dynasty which claims descent from Alexander the Great, titular head of all the Moslems of the Sulu Archipelago and British North Borneo, onetime suitor of "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, only Mohammedan autocrat under the U. S. flag, lost his seat in Philippine Senate when Governor General Frank Murphy failed to reappoint...