Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dudleian is the oldest lecture foundation at Harvard, established in 1751 under the bequest of Paul Dudley, Harvard 1690, Fellow of Harvard College and Chief Justice of Massachusetts Bay. The holder if the lectureship delivers an address on a religious subject at the Harvard Divinity School in the Spring...
Died. George Bruce Cortelyou, 78, old-time politician and financier; at his home in Huntington, L. I. Starting as a stenographer in 1883, he rose to be secretary of three successive Presidents (Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt), holder of three successive Cabinet posts under Theodore Roosevelt, manager of T. R.'s 1904 Presidential campaign, later president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Said T. R.: "If I could only make you smile, George, I could make you President...
...Scholars have done a wide variety of work, ranging from teaching a Sunday school class of middle-aged women to bottling and selling wine, "a conventional job" according to its holder, "made a bit more lively, perhaps, by the commodity which I was handling...
...Charles Wilder Professorship at the Medical School was founded in 1909 under the will of Charles Wilder and his sister Florence E. Wilder. The first holder of the chair was Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, from 1920 until his retirement in 1935, Dr. Zinsser was the second Charles wilder Professor...
...then as Minister of Transport, was tossed a baronetage and for equally inexplicable reasons named to a new post as Minister of Works and Public Buildings, charged with the eventual rebuilding of London. In as new Minister of Transport went sporty Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, holder of the Royal Aero Club's No. 1 flying certificate, twice Parliamentary Secretary to the Transport Ministry, who is known around his greyhound racing tracks (in 1937 they paid 40% dividends) as "Brab...