Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eliot's Grandson. Thomas Hopkinson, senior at Harvard, grandson of the late beloved President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, was awarded the Lionel d'Jersey Harvard studentship at Cambridge University, England...
Died. Dr. William Alexander Young, Director of Medical Research at Accra, Africa, former assistant to the late Dr. Hideyo Noguchi; of yellow fever. Searching for a yellow fever vaccine, Professor Adrian Stokes of London, Dr. Noguchi and Dr. Young have been successive victims of the disease within the last year...
...Ward Leigh is famed for many miles about Nyack, N. Y. as the lady who lives in a glass house surrounded by a high wire fence and never eats meat. Late one night last week, firemen answered an alarm at Mrs. Leigh's home. Reaching the wire fence they could not enter. Politely they phoned credentials (by a telephone at the outer gate); firmly they insisted that they were authentic firemen; were at length given entrance. Mrs. Ward Leigh they found seated before a large sirloin steak. Querulously she told them not to break the glass of her house...
Since 1919, when, in criticizing the condition of the steel industry, he rebuked the late Judge Elbert Henry Gary and spoke harshly of the 12-hour working day prevalent then, Bishop McConnell's name has been perhaps more familiar to laymen than that of any other Methodist. Always vitally interested in questions of public as well as churchly import, Bishop McConnell headed the active Committee on Christian Unity and Industrial Problems at the recent International Missionary Council in Jerusalem. At Kansas City, Bishop Mc Connell was assailed on almost frivolous charges of "maladministration and immorality. " In transferring...
...late James Cox Brady of Manhattan was Maxwell's chief financier. He wanted Mr. Chrysler's production genius. Mr. Chrysler wanted to head a great motor company of his own name. He went to impoverished Maxwell ; cut down its debts ; and in 1925, as controller of the new Chrysler Corp., absorbed Maxwell. Mr. Brady became a Chrysler director; and Jules S. Bache, who heads one of the world's largest stock market brokerage houses. And when James Cox Brady died last November, his brother Nicholas Frederic Brady took over his directorate in the Chrysler Corp. and also...