Word: guernsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jeanette Klein Lauchheimer, 99, one of the twin sisters believed to be oldest in the U. S.; of pneumonia, her first illness; in Manhattan. Her sister. Mrs. Henriette Klein Dannenbaum of Philadelphia long an invalid, awaits her centennial Jan. 16. Born. To Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Guernsey cow. Klondike: a bull- calf; on the Jacob Ruppert, 247 mi. north of the Antarctic Circle...
...defense of ''Krum Elbow" as a real farm. Westmoreland Davis, onetime Governor of Virginia, now publisher of Southern Farm Magazine and proprietor of a 2.400-acre estate near Leesburg, had just returned from Hyde Park. Through the National Committee he declared: "On my visit I found a herd of Guernsey cattle, dairy and horse barns, poultry houses, a silo filled with corn ensilage, farm horses, hogs and over 600 laying hens. The fields were in corn, alfalfa and pasture. There's no pseudo silo and sunken garden. These are on an adjacent place owned by the family of the late...
Married. Peter Llewellyn Davies, London publisher, original of Sir James Matthew Barrie's "Peter Pan;'' and the Honorable Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven, one of the famed socialite twin daughters of Lord Ruthven, Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Guernsey; in London. To escape the crowds outside, Author Barrie, the bridegroom's godfather, left the church via furnace room and coal...
...some cities even such a homely thing as the family wash may cause cracked skulls, bombings. Last week saw the continuation of a new kind of peacetime war. The Nation's milk, product of patient kine, beverage of babies, churned up in violence.* Near Plainfield, Ill. The Guernsey herd of Isaac Lentz, an independent dairyman who had withdrawn from a local milk distributing association and cut his price, lay in their stalls placidly swishing their tails and chewing their nocturnal cuds. Suddenly Farmer Lentz heard a mighty roar. Running outside he discovered that his barn had been bombed...
...work as a grader when the Union Pacific first pushed into Utah. Together the Wattis brothers built the Western Pacific from Salt Lake City to Oroville, Calif, (a $20,000,000 job), the Southern Pacific into Mexico, the American Falls Dam in Idaho, the Gibson Dam in Montana, the Guernsey Dam in Wyoming, the Hetch-Ketchy Dam in California...