Word: evan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street. His wife runs a tearoom on Irving Place, raises cocker spaniels profitably at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. Of their five children, William, 19, works for a power transmission company; Polly, 18, is at Vassar; Frances, 17, goes to Barnard this autumn; Becky, 14, is in high school; Evan, 9. attends a private school in Connecticut. For fun Mr. Thomas plays a little tennis, sails a small boat on Shinnecock Bay. He drinks buttermilk, seldom smokes...
...League majority, flatly disagreeing with Chairman Janssen, was headed by Economist George Bassett Roberts of Manhattan's National City Bank, successor on the commission to his father George Evan Roberts, who was director of the U. S. Mint under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Upholding the gold standard, the majority, or Roberts report, urged every nation that can do so to stick to gold, flayed proposals for bimetallism or a return to the silver standard...
Died. Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, 71, much-publicized country surgeon who performed upon himself an appendectomy, a herniotomy (TIME, Jan. 18); of pneumonia; in Kane, Pa. Died. Samuel M. Curwen, 73, president of J. G. Brill Co. (trolley cars), director of many a potent U. S. corporation; of a general breakdown; in Haverford, Pa. Died. William Thompson Graham, 81, a founder (with the late Daniel G. Reid. "Tin Plate King'') and onetime president of American Can Co.; of pneumonia after long illness; in Manhattan...
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There was no real need for 70-year-old Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane of Kane, Pa. to operate on himself for a rupture last week. Young Dr. William Blair Mosser, surgeon-in-chief of the Kane Summit Hospital and, like Dr. Kane, good enough to be a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, might have done the work. But old Dr. Kane likes to do things to himself. Eleven years ago he anesthetized himself and cut out his own appendix. Three years ago he began signing his operations by tattooing in India ink the Morse telegraph code...