Word: historian
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Most prominent doubter of Bardstown's favorite story was the late Young E. Allison of Louisville's historical society, the Filson Club. Historian Allison's points: 1) Louis Philippe was notoriously stingy; it is doubtful whether he would so generously remember Bishop Flaget who presented a purse of other people's money. 2) Bishop Flaget called on Louis Philippe in France between 1835 and 1839, was received coldly. 3) The Congressmen who introduced the tariff-exemption bills may unwittingly have been quoting rumor; besides a report of the Congressmen's speeches there are no governmental...
Tyler Dennett: Notable biographer and historian, learned adviser of our Department of State, the President-elect of Williams College: we welcome him to New England...
...passed a winter of poor health and fasted 13 hours before the mass. Not so stalwart was many another Catholic in the Stadium. By the time the mass was under way people in the stands were dropping by dozens. By the time Rev. Dr. Peter Keenan Guilday, Catholic University historian, was in the midst of his long sermon, they were dropping by the hundreds. Ambulances were roaring up & down the cinder paths of the Stadium. Hospital tents were swamped. Fifty extra nurses were recruited from the stands to help out the 100 already on duty...
Died. Dr. Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, 61, historian, president of William & Mary College since 1919; of a kidney ailment ; in Norfolk...
From the point of view of the historian, certain changes in the manuscript, while they improve the continuity and the story of the Rothschild family, introduce purely fictitious events, thereby destroying the historical authenticity of the production. To give a few examples: the loan to the Allies, which in the picture Nathan forced from Baring, Metternich, Talleyrand, and Ledrantz, was actually abandoned when Rothschild depressed the market on government bonds; the family's system of branch banking was not Mayer's idea, but that of his brilliant son, Nathan; instead of Nathan, it was his descendant who was knighted, during...