Word: ridgeway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Justice Taft's and Alfred Emanuel Smith's,† has no notable bumps or bulges. ¶ President Hoover last week accepted the resignation of Ben F. Wright as auditor of the Philippine Islands, appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President Hoover: The northwest is dissatisfied with the tariff bill, will...
National Chairman Raskob received from one W. H. Ridgeway, of San Antonio, Tex., an "appeal to your spirit of sportsmanship.'' Mr. Ridgeway thought that Nominee Hoover was going to carry "every State in the Union except Louisiana, Mississippi. Georgia and South Carolina" (The Literary Digest's straw vote predicted that Nominee Hoover would carry Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina). He asked Mr. Raskob to get these States to ''fall in line" and "make it unanimous...
...Schneider, Chairman, Miss Alice Munyon; R. N. Lord, Miss Catherine Swindells; Seeley Thompson, 2nd, Miss Marjorie Moses; S. L. Kelsey, Miss Penelope Ridgeway; E. W. Abend, Miss Laura Emerson; D. J. Graff, Miss Margaret Hach; D. G. Ackerson, Jr., Miss Rhodita Edwards...
...Hill" ivy plant, grown from a slip of the original vine which grew at Charles Dickens' home at Gad's Hill Place, Rochester, England, has been added to the Dickens exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. This plant was loaned by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ridgeway of the Dickens Fellowship of Boston in commemoration of Dickens birthday which is today...
...Cross of The Most Honorable Order of The Bath, created in 1399 by Henry IV. The ceremony takes place on the installation of new Knights. Ten Knights (Earl Beatty, Earl Haig, Earl of Ypres, Lord Southborough, Lord Chalmers, General Sir William Mackinnon, Sir George Buchanan, Viscount Esher, Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Lord Stamfordham) in plumed caps, wondrously colored robes, wearing massive gold chains and bejeweled stars, offered their swords to the Dean of West minster, and made the vow to "Love the King. Defend him and his right; defend maidens, widows and orphans in their rights. Suffer no extortion. Hold...