Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a great and good man gives away $75,000 of earned income yearly. But in your parenthetical allusion to other note worthy bearers of that name you inadvertently missed an opportunity to do justice to a great scientist. Reuben L. Kahn of the faculty of the University of Michigan gave last year to charity about $75 but nevertheless also received an invitation from the Russian government to come to Moscow, which he accepted as he also accepted invitations from scientific societies of London, Paris, Berlin, Edinburgh and Copenhagen. Prof. Kahn is a serologist and in the scientific world...
...Michigan. Last week the U. S. gathered in Detroit and along its rum- reeking river some 400 Dry agents. In the face of this new Prohibition drive Archibald Eugster, 21, with three companions, loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went...
Married. Irving K. Pond, 72, of Chicago, architect, acrobat, first footballer to score a touchdown for University of Michigan in an intercollegiate game; and Miss Katherine N. de Nancrede, of Ann Arbor. Mich., in Ann Arbor, where Mr. Pond's college class was having its 50th reunion. Architect Pond, who prides himself and takes joy in his septuagenarian handsprings and back somersaults (TIME, May 16, 1927, et seq.), said (of his marriage) : "It's the first time I ever did it. I think I ought to be pardoned because of my youth...
...land which the Federal Government would give away. Beside him sat his wife, and young Senator White. The latter was interested in education because he had some. He had attended Hobart College (Geneva, N. Y), been graduated from Yale, studied in Paris and Berlin. He had taught history at Michigan University. He had read and thought about the old English universities. His father had made money building railroads in the West...
...institutions received $100,000 each for musical education last week under the terms of the will of Music Publisher Charles H. Ditson. Beneficiaries are: Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Princeton, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Chicago Musical College, Cincinnati College of Music, Ann Arbor School of Music (University of Michigan). The terms of bequest are similar. The money may be used for one or more of these purposes outlined in the will: to maintain a chair or chairs of music, musical history, or musical esthetics; to maintain scholarships or fellowships in music; to give public performances; to do anything-musical...