Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the young man, said she does not intend to marry him or anyone else. She has wealth, will rear Vera in the name of eugenics. Mrs. Burnham's relatives and father, Dr. Max Mailhouse of New Haven, Conn., were reported to be "harmonious with the situation." Professor Ellsworth Huntington of Yale, geographer, whose hobby is eugenics, said: "From a purely scientific standpoint, it was the correct thing for her [Mrs. Burnham] to do, although there is some doubt that it was best from a social standpoint." The public, shocked at the thought of the unknown-unmarried-young...
...BUILDERS OF AMERICA-Ellsworth Huntington & Leon F. Whitney -Morrow ($3.50). Unlike some advocates of birth control who whine for an indiscriminate decrease in the world-birth rate, Authors Huntington, able Yale environist, and Whitney, able Secretary of the American Eugenics Society, with many a diagram and graph, powerfully defend their contention that the intelligent minority should be more prolific. Most novel, indisputable, disastrous, are the statistics which they produce upon those who achieve irritating and ephemeral success during their collegiate careers, and who, when they graduate, are reluctant to duplicate their superiorities in offspring. Even chorus girls and stage ladies...
...Ellsworth [U. S. backer of the expedition] and I had each, of course, brought a flag to be dropped overboard as we crossed the pole? Ellsworth the Stars and Stripes and I the national flag of Norway. In keeping with Nobile's injunctions to keep down the weight of all baggage, we had each brought a little flag not much larger than a pocket handkerchief. . . . Imagine our astonishment to see Nobile dropping overside not one, but armfuls of flags. For a few moments the Norge looked like a circus wagon of the skies. ... I was amused at his childish pleasure...
...Chapman Andrews Robert Abram Bartlett Frederick R. Burnham Richard E. Byrd George K. Cherrie James L. Clark Merian C. Cooper Lincoln Ellsworth Louis Agassiz Fuertes † George Bird Grinnell Charles A. Lindbergh Donald Baxter MacMillan Clifford H. Pope George Palmer Putnam Kermit Roosevelt Carl Rungius Stewart Edward White Orville Wright...
Died. Miss Marion Frances Statler, 20, daughter of Ellsworth M. Statler, famed hotelman; at Greatneck, L. I.; of heart disease...