Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Knox '98, former Harvard football player and a member of the Harvard Athletic Association, was guest speaker at the meeting, and Dr. Hunting was toastmaster...
Meeting in Manhattan last week, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association anticipated nothing much more than the routine business of electing Harry S. Knox of Chicago president to succeed Louis J. Carruthers of New York, and discussing the recommendations of its ranking committee which were announced month ago (TIME, Jan. 23). When the meeting was over, the U. S. L. T. A. had passed, by an overwhelming majority, one of the most momentous motions in its 52 years of existence: to permit an open championship, in which amateurs may compete against professionals, to be played at the Germantown Cricket Club...
...Short '36 defeated Barton, 15-5, 12-15, 15-12, 15-10 G. A. Branwell '36 defeated Pickering, 15-12, 13-15, 17-15, 16-17, 15-10; J. L. Clark '36 defeated Haskell, 15-8, 16-15, 8-15, 15-13; J. J. Knox '36 defeated Allen...
...solitary Englishman, William Knox D'Arcy, who confirmed tales of oil while wandering over the Persian deserts in 1900. With one fortune, grubbed from Australian gold fields, already in his pocket, he wangled from the then ruling Shah a concession covering four-fifths of all Persia. The ignorant Shah was glad indeed to get $20,000 cash. Berlin's Deutsche Bank, Standard Oil and other powers soon were fighting for the privilege of buying D'Arcy's amazing concession. Burmah Oil Co. finally bagged it for Britain in 1909 and set it up as Anglo-Persian...
Besides Mary Ball Washington, Eliza Ballou Garfield, Nancy Allison McKinley and Sarah Delano Roosevelt, two other women lived to see their sons elected President of the U. S.: Jane Knox Polk and Hannah Simpson Grant.-ED. Letter-Writer...