Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass., but shares the Mastership of the Cattistock Hunt with Parson Milne. He is at present the only U. S. Master of an English hunt. A fox-hunting enthusiast, he has done much to further the sport in the U. S., where he says it is "certainly on the increase." He is president of the Master of Fox Hounds Association of America...
...wholesale grocer and a newspaper prepared last week to operate the first commercial television service in the U. S. Edward G. McDougall of Libby McNeill & Libby, food firm, has long been a television enthusiast. Like other television amateurs he has been impatient because the country's 26 experimental stations have not reached a large public, because amateurs have had difficulty in buying proper receiving sets. He consulted William S. Hedges, president of the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ. He said that if the Daily News would construct a television broadcasting station, Libby McNeill & Libby would...
...Last week President Hoover selected William Cameron Forbes, 60, Boston merchant, polo enthusiast, bachelor grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to be Ambassador to Japan. Before the appointment was officially announced Tokyo was asked if Mr. Forbes was persona grata. Two months ago Mr. Forbes led a Hoover investigation commission back from Haiti with recommendations which the President accepted as the basis for a new U. S. policy toward that black republic (TIME, April 7). Familiar enough is Mr. Forbes with the Pacific and its problems. President Roosevelt first sent him to the Philippines in 1904 as a member...
...Music Enthusiast + Kreisler's Caprice Viennois = Musical Appreciation...
With the game arranged, Jarman was searching last night for a referee for the contest and will welcome any enthusiast who is qualified to referee a rugby game, who will communicate with him at 24 Massachusetts Hall...