Word: kins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white orphan children," prescribed that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor." When Stephen Girard's French kin tried to break the will, their advocate, Daniel Webster, carried the plea to the U. S. Supreme Court, where he eloquently protested against "a cruel experiment upon these orphans to shut them up and make them the victims of a philosophical speculation. ... If the courts should set this will aside...
...placed a rabbit's ova in a bottle with a rabbit's sperm, shook them together for 20 minutes. Next he placed the fertilized ova in the fallopian tube of a rabbit doe who 33 days later bore a litter of six healthy bunnies. They were no kin to her. She was simply their host-mother (TIME, March...
Married. William Lawson Little Jr., 25, winner of the U. S. and British amateur golf championships for two consecutive years (1934 and 1935); and Dorothy Kurd. 18 (no kin to golfer Dorothy Campbell Kurd); in Chicago...
...Jeff." From Boston youngish T. (for Thomas) Jefferson Coolidge went to Washington to become Undersecretary of the Treasury in March 1934, to lend the New Deal his technical knowledge of finance on the long road of borrowing that lay ahead. A descendant of Thomas Jefferson but only the remotest kin, if any, to Calvin Coolidge, "Jeff" Coolidge, despite his staid New England background, qualified for service in the New Deal by his independence in politics, by his vote for Roosevelt in 1932. In the Treasury his job was figuring out the terms on which new loans should be floated, bonds...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala., a family council of kin of Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Scott, 75, who had just died of pneumonia, decided to bury her in Little Sandy Cemetery near her Taylorsville home five miles away. Bitterly her son Hugh, 57, World War veteran protested that her dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse...