Word: nicholases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"A man in the crowd," Mrs. Sabin reports, "yelled at me, 'What would your grandfather, who was an advocate of temperance, say to your talk?' I only dimly remember my grandfather and I did not know his views on the subject and accordingly I hesitated for a minute...
Born. To John Nicholas Brown, once famed as "world's richest baby," later as "richest U. S. bachelor," and to Mrs. Anne Kinsolving Brown; a son; in Providence, R. I. Week before the Browns were rescued by Coast Guardsmen from their schooner in a squall.
At the turn of the century, U. S. headmasters found it a prodigious job to get their students into college. No uniform requirements existed, each college held its own examinations in June or September. to which the candidates were obliged to journey no matter how far. In 1899 a national...
Wednesday Evening. Everyone knew that if this singularly colorless convention was to have the slightest splash of pigmentation, now was the time for it. Charles Gates Dawes had refused to permit his friends to boom him for the Vice-Presidency. Opposition to the renomination of Charles Curtis was completely demoralized...
Germans, recalling how he took chemical patents from them as Alien Property Custodian during the War, and later exploited them as head of the Chemical Foundation, are not prone to think of Irish-blooded Francis Patrick Garvan, brother-in-law of the late Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady, as a particularly...