Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker at the dedicatory exercises to be held at 4.30 o'clock on Wednesday, at the site of the tablet, will be President James Rowland Angell, at Yale, who will also be the guest of honor at the annual Yale Club of Boston banquet at the University Club...
Died. David Rowland Francis, 76, onetime (1889-93) Governor of Missouri, later (1896-97) Secretary of the Interior, and (1916-18) Ambassador to Russia; in St. Louis, after long illness. He was in Russia when Tsar Nicholas II was deposed. Through him, the U. S. recognized the Kerensky republic. He suffered from Bolsheviki attacks when the U. S. refused to recognize the revolution which placed the present Russian government in power...
...James Rowland Angell, President of Yale: "Lately, Director Richard Swann Lull of our university's Peabody Museum received a telegram from Texas saying that Old Bill, 22-year-old, 2,500-pound Asian armored rhinoceros, worth $30,000, had died very suddenly. Professor Lull, quick to reply, told Old Bill's owners, the Ringling Brothers Circus, that he would be glad to have them stand by an agreement made years ago by the late P. T. Barnum and renewed by the Ringlings when they bought out Mr. Barnum, that the corpses of their rare animals should come...
...other sources, however, that President Coolidge and King George did not converse. Publisher Ochs of the New York Times let it be known that he was first private speaker, with Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the London Times. Mayor Walker of New York said he talked to Lord Mayor Sir Rowland Blades of London. There was little enough secrecy about the service, at that According to the London Daily Mail clever radio engineers, amateur and professional, were able to listen in upon the talks as far away as South Africa. Complete privacy is being striven for by engineers. . . . Mr. Gifford...
Married. Marion Angell, daughter of President James Rowland Angell of Yale; to William Rockefeller McAlpin, grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller; in New Haven...