Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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REFERRING TO YOUR JUNE 29 ISSUE, P 45 NEBRASKA'S GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS RECEIVED HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS AT ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA CHARTER DAY EXERCISES FEB. 15, 1935. HE SPOKE ON "THE INHERITANCE TAX," POINTING OUT THAT THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IS NECESSARY IF CIVILIZATION IS TO BE PRESERVED...
...Birthday Honors was Australia's ebullient Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons, upon whose advice His Majesty acted last week in appointing Mr. Lyons to the Order of Companions of Honor. Popular was a posthumous gesture by King Edward toward the late Rudyard Kipling, who repeatedly refused a knighthood. The doctor who operated upon Poet Kipling in his last hours (TIME, Jan. 27), Surgeon Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, received a knighthood...
...Christian of Japan. Nearly turned away from the U. S. by Federal immigration authorities in California because his eyes are infected with trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), this soft-faced, gold-toothed Japanese scrupulously obeyed special Public Health Service regulations laid down for his evangelistic tour. He traveled with a doctor, declined to shake hands with anyone, never entered a private home, made sure that linen and table utensils were sterilized after he used them. Last week Kagawa was in good health after a grueling itinerary during which he spoke before an estimated 750,000 people in 150 cities. About...
...vigorously devout Catholic, Adman MacManus is a Knight of Malta, a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory, an honorary doctor from Notre Dame, Detroit and Marquette Universities. Practiced at writing books such as Men, Money & Motors and The Sword Arm of Business, he turned to Catholic apologetics in An Enemy Sowed Cockles. Sympathetic with the interest of Pope Pius XI in Chinese education, Layman MacManus helped found the Catholic University of Peiping. All this smoothed the way for a request he made of the Holy See five years ago. Of the six MacManus sons and daughters...
...annual award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best performance by an actor went to (1 Charles Laughton-Mutiny on the Bounty, 2 Charles Chaplin-Modern Times, 3 Leslie Howard-Petrified Forest, 4 Jean Hersholt - The Country Doctor, S Victor McLaglen-The Informer...