Word: ormonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Adelbert Ames, 97, last surviving Federal general of the Civil War, oldest West Point graduate (Class of 1861), long-time golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller; of old age; in Ormond Beach, Fla. He entered the Civil War a lieutenant, was a 29-year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor...
...Ormond Beach, Fla., John D. Rockefeller Sr, reviewed the children's parade in a village street fair, watched a 5-year-old girl do a toe-dance. He asked a prizewinner, "What will you give me if I give you this ribbon?" The little girl gave him a kiss. He chuckled and kissed her hand, later put his hand on a child's head and spryly kicked over...
...Virginia's Senator Glass, Utah's King, Illinois' Lewis, Colorado's Costigan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., all with colds, the Senators in Washington, Mrs. Rockefeller in, Ormond Beach, Fla.; Pennsylvania's Senator Davis and Lady Louis Mountbatten, after appendicitis operations, in Pittsburgh and Paris; General Pershing, of a throat infection, in Tucson, Ariz.; Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and Helen ("Boop-oop-a-doop") Kane Hoffman, of influenza in Saint Leonards, England, and Hamilton, Bermuda; Prizefighter Primo Camera and onetime English Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, of injuries...
...Utah was of "Cabinet size." Governor Dern has treasured that aside ever since as his promise of a White House seat after March 4. For a time, though, it looked as if party factionalism in Utah would keep him out. When the Dern appointment was announced last week Ormond Ewing, Democratic National Committeeman, declared: ''He won't last more than six months. I'm glad to see Utah recognized but I'm not glad Dern...
...goal-line stand against Brown enabled it to accomplish a feat unequaled by an Eastern team since Pitt and Navy in 1910 played through a whole season with out being scored against. Brown's chief weapon this year was an unusual "triple wingback" offense, designed by Coach De Ormond ("Tuss") McLaughry to flank both tackles and one end. Colgate, coached by Andy Kerr, a wiry, witty little Scot who was Glenn Warner's predecessor at Stanford (and who, many experts think, teaches Warner football better than Wizard Warner), has an amazingly complicated attack, based not on power...