Word: fairfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the committee headed by the Prince: Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, big game huntress whose late husband chose King Albert's site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have...
...birds are concerned with poultry shows. Among the 800 exhibitors were Mr. & Mrs. John D. Hertz of Chicago who showed a pen of Buff Orpingtons valued at $100,000. Three Havemeyer brothers, of whom one, T. A. Havemeyer, was president of the Show, took prizes hither and yon. William Fairfield Whiting, paper manufacturer of Holyoke, Mass., who came to fame by succeeding Herbert Hoover for a while as Secretary of Commerce (September 1928 to March 1929), dropped in. Harry F. Allen, brother to Governor Frank Allen of Massachusetts, took prizes with his Silver King pigeons...
Manhattan's Henry Fairfield Osborn gave his crushed fedora hat and fur-lined overcoat (it has fancy buttons) to the cloakroom attendant and strolled to the speakers' platform, where he presided as retiring president. (California Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan is the incoming president.) His speech tended to show that man and monkeys are descended from so remote an ancestor that they should not be considered related...