Word: hodgson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nourished some of the major talents of a past generation. To St. Nicholas in 1886 young Richard Harding Davis sold his first story, about football at Princeton. For St. Nicholas Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad, Louisa May Alcott Under the Lilacs, Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy...
...going through that Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet announced that Jules Henry, French Ambassador to Spain, would not return to Loyalist territory. Senator Léon Bérard, who has already been to Rebel Spain on one "unofficial" mission, returned to Burgos, this time for "official" negotiations. Sir Robert Hodgson, British Agent to Rebel Spain, began long talks with Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, Rebel Foreign Minister...
Britain and Bombs. At Burgos, Spanish Rightist capital. British Agent Sir Robert Hodgson informed Generalissimo Franco's Government of His Britannic Majesty's Government's "horror" at civilian losses in Leftist Spain. At Tokyo, British Ambassador Sir Robert L. Craigie objected to "indiscriminate" aerial attacks on Canton. While Laborites in the House of Commons pointedly demanded that Britain do something besides "hold up her hands in horror." Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, outlined a plan to organize a small, neutral, independent, international commission to investigate all bombings...
Died-Vivian Burnett, 61, writer, editor, second son of Author Frances Hodgson Burnett for whose famed Little Lord Fauntleroy he was the inspiration and model; in Manhasset, N. Y. When he was seven, Vivian Burnett suggested to his mother that she write books for children like himself. That this prompted her to produce the book that set fashions for a decade and that Vivian Burnett was the prototype of its hero, Authoress Burnett confessed 13 years later when her son was a member of the track team at Harvard. Said Vivian Burnett, who later became a reporter, an editor...
...coxswain, Hunter, and Oxford's Merifield-replacing 56-lb. Hart Massey who was so minute that his crew would have needed a special shell (TIME, Feb. 1) -steered their boats so close that from the bank it looked as though the oars might lock. Then, with Hodgson at stroke, Sturrock and Cherry, veterans of England's Olympic crew, in the next two slides, Oxford began to draw away. Its lead was a boat's length at Barnes Bridge, two lengths at White Hart Inn, three lengths at the finish...