Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willys-Knight, Whippet Buick
These were: Miss Eleanor Post Close Hutton, granddaughter of the late Charles W. ("Postum") Post, Manhattan; Mrs. John North Willys (Whippet & Willys-Knight), Toledo, Ohio; Miss Mary Stevens Hammond (daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Spain), Bernardsville, N. J.; Miss Anne Gordon Colby, daughter of ex-Senator and Mrs. Everett Colby, West Orange, N. J.; Miss Anne Washington Ferine, lineal descendant of both the brother and half-brother of George Washington, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fairfax, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Mary Seton Lindsay, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, wife of the onetime Governor of Georgia, Atlanta...
Brady, Manhattan financier. Mr. & Mrs. Brady have been in Italy, and their U. S. friends could only cable them their applause, for it was most fitting that of the handful of papal knightly orders that of St. Gregory the Great go to Mr. Brady. Pope Gregory XVI (1765-1846) created the order in 1831 and put it under the patronage of that first and greater Gregory (c. 540-604)-to reward the civil and military virtues of the subjects of the Papal States. But now, when the Papal domain is only a patch of land at Rome, the knightly requirements...
...Order of Pins IX intended fittingly to reward noble and conspicuous deeds meritorious before the Church and stimulating in their effect upon society; conferred also upon non-Catholics. Sole U. S. member is James Joseph Phelan of Boston, created Knight Commander...
...Order of St. Sylvester, reputedly the oldest and once most prized honor, of which there are no U. S. holders. In 1926 Pius XI created His Excellency the Hon. Charles Dunbar Burgess King, President of the Negro Republic of Liberia, Knight Grand Cross of the Order...