Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the dead was Sieger (Champion) Lenz-Assmannsheim, undefeated three-time champion of Germany. Imported from Leipzig seven weeks ago, he was entered for the Maryland Kennel Club show last week, the great Westminster show next week. Also dead was Parmenio Ditmarsia, champion of Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, entered for the same shows...
...Fresnel Loree (see p. 45), Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Sculptor Lorado Taft, Entomologist Leland Ossian Howard, Politician Sir Robert Laird Borden, Immunologist Theobald Smith. As doctor he was an internist, with digestive disorders his specialty. Last week, at the behest of Manhattan's August Holland Society, friends of the late Fenton Benedict Turck gathered to honor the posthumous publication of a book by him-Action, of the Living Cell (Macmillan...
Into effect last week went the "International Convention for the" Safety of Life at Sea," a uniform series of marine safety laws agreed to by Britain, France. Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Spain, Finland, Holland, and Denmark. It was drawn up in London in 1929 after investigations into the sinking of S. S. Vestris with a loss of 112 lives in 1928. No party to the convention is the U. S. Both the International Seamen's Union and the American Federation of Labor backed the fight against it in Congress, claiming that U. S. shipping inspection laws are already...
Papal sorrows: church difficulties in Mexico, Russia, Spain (see p. 15); economic distress throughout the world; the deaths of Cardinals Piffl of Vienna and Van Rossum of Holland...
Died, William Jacob Holland, 84. butterfly man, director emeritus of Carnegie Institute; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Author (the definitive Butterfly Book), paleontologist (specialties: diplodocus, dinosaur), zoologist, explorer, museum administration expert, artist, teacher, clergyman, "he knew everything about so many things that [he] . . . may well cause special wonder...