Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gann dined last month at the British Embassy, wrote and asked: "Is the honor and dignity of your country as dear to you as your own status in the social life of Washington? Did you for the honor and dignity of your country decline liquor at Sir Esme Howard's dinner...
Clinton Norman Howard, Chairman of the National United Committee for Law Enforcement,* at a W. C. T. U. meeting at Round Lake, N. Y.: "The people will not let their constitution be wickershamed into a squatter sovereignty hodgepodge. . . . Maryland, Wisconsin and New York are where South Carolina was in the conflict against the abolition of slavery. . . . They are the copperhead and slacker states and are more culpable in time of peace than any slacker citizen in time...
Died. Mrs. Howard Kinsey, 68, of San Francisco, mother of Tennis-Players How ard and Robert Kinsey (U. S. national clay court doubles champions, 1924); in San Francisco...
Poet John Howard Payne wrote the extra verses in 1829 as a personal tribute to the "exile" of the verses-Lucretia Augusta Sturgis Bates, wife of Joshua Bates, famed London banker (Baring Bros.). Both Mr. and Mrs. Bates were natives of Massachusetts. He gave great gifts toward the founding of Boston Public Library. Their London years were cheered by opulence, popularity. But Poet Payne, who also spent most of his life away from his native U. S., was a homeless, often unhappy, expatriate, visited by the nostalgia which led him to write his famed song. When he met Mrs. Bates...
Henry Hurd Rusby, Columbia University's famed pharmacologist, had hoped that the Association would finally be induced to take up the campaign against "impure" ergot imports which he has been conducting in collaboration with Howard W. Ambruster, an independent Manhattan ergot importer (TIME, April 15, May 13). Apparently because of the commercial complications involved, the Association took no ergot action, left to the U. S. Government the enforcement of pure drug laws and standards...