Word: richards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill to give Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd the rank of a Rear Admiral, U. S. N., retired...
...Confirmed the nominations of Albert L. Watson of Pennsylvania and Richard J. Hopkins of Kansas as Federal District Judges...
Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, politician, prohibitor, stock speculator, lent moral but not financial support to his son Richard M. Cannon, on trial at Montrose, Calif., for failing to pay his teachers and for maintaining unsanitary conditions at his school ("Cannon Military Academy"). Enraged at being newsphoto-graphed outside the courthouse. Bishop Cannon grappled with cameramen, crying, "What right have you to take my picture...
Promoted. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, polar explorer; to the rank of Rear Admiral, U. S. N., retired; by act of Congress...
Masons, printed an almanac (Poor Richard's), was a colonel in the French & Indian War, founded a hospital. He became the biggest printer in the Colonies and was made deputy postmaster-general. His electrical experiments (demonstration of the identity of lightning and electricity) won him a Fellowship in the Royal Society. He was sent to London to get Pennsylvania freed of the Penns and made a crown colony...