Word: milburn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote of the New York State and New Jersey Tunnel Commission the Hudson River vehicular tunnel, holed through on October 29, has been named the "Holland Tunnel" in memory of Clifford Milburn Holland '06, who was chief engineer in charge of the project...
...Devereux Milburn, Captain of the American International Polo Team; George Wharton Pepper,* U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Grantland Rice, sports writer. These three were last week appointed to serve on a special committee to study the player-writer rule of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. The question at issue is: May an amateur sportsman write, if he can? Can he commercialize sport by profiting from the literary value, if any, of a name which sport has made valuable? The literary fecundity of "Big Bill" Tilden, national tennis champion, has raised the argument. Hence the dapper Senator, hence the astute...
Died. Clifford Milburn Holland, 41, chief engineer of a new vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River at Manhattan; in Battle Creek, Michigan, of heart disease. A day or twoafter his death, a charge of dynamite "holed through" connecting the two ends of the tunnel driven from opposite sides of the river and disclosed them only three-quarters of an inch out of direct line with each other...
...four reined up, dismounted, received from the hands of Major General Robert Lee Bullard a huge silver bowl?the historic International Challenge Cup, filled with "the waters of the Meadow Brook." Lifting it, the four drank in turn to their victory?Captain Devereux Milburn, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., J. Watson Webb, Robert Strawbridge...
...famous case. Almost everybody associates the names of William Travers Jerome, as prosecutor, and those of Delphin M. Delmar and Martin W. Littleton, as counsel for the defense, with the several Thaw trials. Hundreds of people today can tell you that James W. Osborne prosecuted (1900) and John G. Milburn and George Gordon Battle defended Molineux. But even lawyers have to turn to the files of old newspapers to find out the names of the judges who presided at these famed trials...