Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byrds ever since William Byrd fought Indians in 1683. Today there are three famed Byrd brothers-"Tom, Dick and Harry." Harry F. Byrd is Governor of Virginia. Capt. Thomas D. Byrd, U. S. Army retired, served with distinction in the World War, now manages a vast apple farm in Maryland. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd is the outstanding scientist-aviator...
...boundary (Lat. 39" 43' 26.3" N.) between Maryland and Pennsylvania. It was surveyed in 1763-67 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon who were sent over from England to settle the dispute between the Baltimore and Penn families following Charles IPs grant to William Penn. When slavery became a U. S. issue, the Line was thought of as extending west via the Ohio River and the upper boundary of Missouri, separating free from slave states, North from South...
Last week he had opportunity to reject a bishopric a third time. The House of Bishops had elected him missionary bishop of Wyoming. For three weeks he pondered. Then last week when Bishop John Gardner Murray of Maryland, Presiding Bishop, went to Manhattan from the Church Congress in San Francisco, Dr. Silver sent him a letter. It read: "The action of the bishops of the Church in selecting me for the post of bishop of the Missionary District of Wyoming has received serious and prayerful consideration. It has, I confess, brought back to me many happy and sacred memories...
...relatives helped him secure funds to build a monoplane in Brooklyn. He taught himself to fly, set up an aviation school. During the War, he lost a contract with the British government because he did not have the money to swing it. He designed planes for a Maryland concern until it went bankrupt...
Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland and Mrs. Bruce returned from Europe on the Leviathan last week, faithfully bringing home the favorite Scotch terrier of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon...