Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Throne of Hungary, a "Kingless Kingdom" ruled at present by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. The question before Count Bethlen loomed as particularly opportune, because last week, the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, legitimate heir to the Throne, eldest son of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor and King Karl, reached his age of majority...
...disparagement to say that her own family, the great House of Soong, is more potent. Mrs. Chiang's brother is Finance Minister T. V. Soong; one of her brothers-in-law is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, H. H. Kung; a second was the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, sainted father of the Nationalist Party which now dominates all China. Since Mrs. Hoover's father was a prosperous American banker and Mrs. Chiang's a vastly rich Chinamerchant, neither has ever been in meager circumstances...
...famed Julius Rosenwald, of Sears, Roebuck. Hereafter, part of the Julius Rosenwald fund will be devoted to the physical welfare of the middle class, largely through the establishment of pay clinics. The work will be under the administration of Dr. Michael M. Davis, able Manhattan clinical expert, late of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
However, when the late Sir Leslie Stephen started the English Dictionary of National Biography, he received encouraging letters from his friends Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Henry James; later he was made Knight Commander of the Bath...