Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year after George Washington and colleagues got the United States functioning under its present Constitution, a baby was born in Virginia and baptized John Tyler. Fifty-one years later John Tyler was inaugurated tenth President of the United States, Twelve years after that, when he was 63, John Tyler's wife bore him a son in Virginia. Seven years later she bore a daughter to 70-year-old John Tyler. The son, baptized Lyon Gardner Tyler, lived to be President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin...
...other members of the Harvard team are John Benson '30, E.J. Davis '29, Norton Long '31, P.A. Pertzoff '31, F.N. Rich '29, W.A. Robinson '31, and Ordway Southard...
...annual series of chamber music concerts by Arthur Whiting and assisting artists were announced yesterday by the Department of Music as follows: December 5, January 16, February 20, March 6, and March 27. The concerts, all on Wednesday evenings, will be given at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall...
...22nd book, which he published last week. The title: The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893 (Lippincott, $1.50). Little known it still is that President Cleveland ("Grover the Good") developed cancer of his left jaw while he was stoutly persuading Congress to demonetize silver.* Dr. Keen, Dr. John Frederick Erdmann and the late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant and intimate friend) cut out the diseased bone during two operations. An artificial jaw of vulcanized rubber supported the cheek in the natural position and prevented it from falling in. So artful were the operations...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, heavy contributor to the Republican war chest of 1920, and John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, celebrated a day of mutual goodwill. It was Father & Son Day at the Newman School in Lakewood, N. J., where Messrs. Sinclair & Raskob and many another bigwig met sons at school...