Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legion's Bonus demand continued to flare elsewhere throughout the land. At Chattanooga ex-soldiery banded together under the name of American Veterans, took a strong anti-Bonus stand. Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker, resigned from his local Legion post. Another Legion resignee was Major General George B. Duncan, retired, of Lexington, Ky., commander of the 82nd Division. When Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, an adviser to the National Economy League, announced that he had relinquished an honorary Legion membership, Louis Arthur Johnson, the Legion's new national commander, denied the Legion had any honorary members, called the Admiral...
Miss Merrill left her estate, valued at $175,000, to Duncan Minor. He hired a private detective to help solve the crime...
...write floridly about departed social glories. The dead woman's father was Ayres P. Merrill, a friend of President Grant who sent him to Brussels. Oldtimers vaguely recall that Miss Merrill was presented at the Court of St. James. She was supposed to have been in love with Duncan Minor, who traced his lineage back to a Spanish Governor of the Louisiana territory, but they never married. For reasons unknown she withdrew to "Glenburney," the trim white family home a mile out from Natchez on the Kingston Road. A woman of means, she affected old-fashioned dress, lived...
...witness at George Bernard Shaw's wedding in 1898, was mistaken for the bridegroom, nearly married to Mrs. Shaw. Died. Rin Tin Tin, 14, famed German shepherd dog actor; of old age; in Hollywood. He was found during the War in Alsace-Lorraine by Lieutenant Lee Duncan. After four years education in the U. S. he appeared in his first motion picture, Where the North Begins. Trainer Duncan always emphasizes the fact that "Rinty" was not trained, but really educated. Rin Tin Tin earned over $300,000 for his master. Able to receive direction from Trainer Duncan by pantomime...
...called Doctor by writing a Ph.D. thesis at Princeton on "Milton's Knowledge of Music." He has taught school, worked for Life, the New York Times, the old Evening Mail, the Boston Transcript. He is a half-brother of Princeton's large-bodied, large-voiced Professor John Duncan Spaeth, famed Shakespeare man and chairman of Princeton's rowing committee. Shrewd, energetic and talkative, he describes himself as "writer, broadcaster, lecturer, composer, arranger and general showman and entertainer...