Word: ephraim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West to take command of the Union army, who was the one man, the only man in that vast throng of blue-coated soldiery to greet the lonely general with a friendly, "Hello, Ulysses old horse! Good luck!" Who was it, I repeat? It was my grandfather, Corp. Ephraim Forecast. And you know...
Died. John Henry Bushman, 82, father of virile cinema actor Francis X. Bushman and of eleven other offspring, at Mount Washington, Md. He was a Civil War veteran, a descendant of one of three brothers (John, Isaac, Ephraim) who landed in the U. S. from Germany in pre-Revolutionary days and soon married three sisters Miller...
...York State Isaiah J. Churgin and Ephraim Skliansky went rowing on Long Lake. The rowboat overturned and they were drowned. Both were officers of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, buying machinery for Russia. Funeral services, without religious ceremonies, were held at a funeral chapel in Manhattan. There were 500 wreaths sent-most of them allegedly from grateful U. S. merchants, unnamed. One with an inscription "To my dear friends and co-workers," was said to have been placed there by order of Leon Trotzky. Four busses, two flower cars, ten limousines and other automobiles made up the funeral procession. The corpses...
Professor Emeritus Ephraim Emerton '71 said: "There will be plenty of others to speak of Dean Briggs' eminent services as administrative officer, sagacious counsellor, persistent believer in the essential right-mindedness of youth. My word at this moment is one, not of eulogy, but of congratulation for the opportunity now opening before him to devote himself to the congenial work of literary production. The volume of his achievement in this field is already considerable. As a writer of graceful verse and of a lucid prose always carrying a message of hopeful courage without reproach, he has a wide audience already...
Professor Ephraim Emerton '71 will speak at 12.10 tomorrow at the fourth meeting in the series of addresses on "Religion and the Law", held at the First Parish Church in Cambridge. He is speaking this Sunday instead of on March 1, as previously announced, taking the place of the Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers, who will give his address on "Theology and Law" at a later date...