Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...13?Protestant Episcopal House of Bishops meets at Washington. Purpose: election of presiding bishop to succeed the late Right Rev. John Gardner Murray of Maryland...
Resigned. John Van Antwerp Mac-Murray, U.S. Minister to China since 1925, to take a position at Johns Hopkins University. More than 20 years a diplomat, he has served at Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Peking. He was an expert Far Eastern advisor to the U. S. delegation at the Washington Disarmament Conference (1921-22). For a time (1924) he served as Assistant Secretary of State...
Died. Dr. John Roach Straton, 54, fundamentalist Baptist preacher; in a sanitarium at Clifton Springs, N. Y.; of a heart attack...
...Modiglianis were pompously hung and framed. Well-tailored attendants mingled with the visitors, distributed lavish programs. The lenders of the canvases to the exhibition included Editor Frank Crowninshield of smartchart Vanity Fair, Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, Dealers Paul Reinhardt and John F. Kraushaar, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn. They gave an aura of respectability to the exhibition which might have amused the little, consumptive painter. People who would not have been seen talking with him now pay $20,000 for his canvases, eulogize him over their teacups as a great genius. For in his day Modigliani was the butt of ribaldry...
...Merrill, Wis., one John Aho sits in county-jail making birdhouses out of condemned slot-machines...