Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those two eminently worthy old gentlemen Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls could have returned to earth last week to check up on their Literary Digest, they might have suffered enough of a shock to send them kiting back to their Lutheran heaven. As recently as two weeks ago there would have been no shock at all. For, two weeks ago, they would have found the Digest bearing a tasteful painting of horses & riders taking a water-jump in a steeplechase. (Not quite so happy as one Digest cover of a year ago showing a tot peering...
...forth until some 20,000 men, women and children had been transported. They were not the ordinary type of emigrant. The Spring Fleet carried De Peysters, Ludlows, Richards and Billopps of New York, Uphams and Coffins of Boston, Sayres and Pomfrets from Connecticut, Saunderses from Virginia and Lieut. Colonel Isaac Allen of the New Jersey Volunteers. Many of the U. S. refugees did not stay, moved southwest to the warmer, more fertile plains of Ontario, but those that did stay not only settled New Brunswick but won it separate government...
...during the battle were cared for by their comrades and were carried to their own homes. No one paid any attention to the British wounded, however, and the survivors of the march on Concord were in too much of a hurry to bother with them. It remained for Dr. Isaac Foster, Jr. of Charleston, a Harvard graduate of the class of 1758 and a member of the Provincial congress, to set up a hospital at what is now 95 Brattle Street. The wounded British prisoners were taken there, and within two months Dr. Foster and his staff of assistants recruited...
...seems that Dr. Joao Frederico Normano, visiting lecturer on economics for two years and an associate director of the Harvard Bureau of Economic Research in Latin America, is none other than Isaac Lewin, enterprising Berlin banker who in 1928 cleaned up a tidy sum by the simple expedient of forging bills of exchange and selling them to foreign banks at a discount...
Died. Carrie Sonneborn Guggenheim, 74, relict of Manhattan Copperman Isaac Guggenheim (1923 estate: estimated $25,000,000; 1932 estate: $10.000,000); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...