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...reporting to New York members of the Ornery Men's Club the acquisition of a new and noble member???Governor 'Alfalfa Bill? Murray of Oklahoma," said Clubfounder Volney T. Hoggatt of Denver. The Ornery Men's Club was organized in 1900 in the late Sports Promoter George L.("Tex") Rickard's saloon at Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...National Academy of Science, whose membership means professional eminence, had until last week only one woman member???Florence Rena Sabin, 59, important anatomist who is now doing fundamental research on tuberculosis at the Rockefeller Institute. She became an Academician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Facts, Questions | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...been twice Captain of the King's Gentlemen-at-Arms, twice Master of Royal Buckhounds. Though a staunch Conservative he is on friendly terms with Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, now "Father of the House of Commons" (i. e., not the oldest member, but the one longest a member???40 years in the case of Mr. Lloyd George, and for the Earl of Coventry 87 years). The youngest peer is the Earl of Gains borough, 6, and the youngest old enough to take his seat is the Premier Duke and Earl of England, the Duke of Norfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: House of Loafers | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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