Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From commandant of the Battle Fleet, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes will be advanced to Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, on Sept. 4, succeeding his brother-in-law, Admiral Samuel Shelburne
...Eastern Guatemala, Dr. Samuel J. Record discovered a tree never before known to science, named it the cow tree. From its bark, when slit, issues a creamy white latex, delicate in taste, nourishing to man and beast...
...Clausen, Mr. J. C. Cowdin, Mr. Alvin Devereux, Mr. Haris Fahnestock, Mr. P. H. B. Freling-huysen, Mr. A. L. Gimbel, Mrs. F. E. Guest, Mr. A. A. Gulick, Mr. R. C. Holmes, Mr. W. A. Harriman, Mr. J. F. Johnson Jr., Mr. V. E. Macy, Mr. Samuel McRoberts, Mr. Jeremiah Milbank, Mr. Devereux Milburn, Mr. C. H. Ptforzheimer, Mr. Allan Pinkerton, Mr. A. T. Pouch, Mr. E. F. Price, Mr. P. R. Payne 2nd, Mr. E. L. Rossiter, Mr. Franklin Simon, General H. B. Stewart, Mr. L. E. Stoddard, Mr. R. E. Strawbridge, Major-General C. P. Summerall...
Died. "General" Simon Petlura, onetime President of the short-lived Ukranian Republic (March to November, 1921), vacillating ally of the illfated anti-Bolshevist commanders Denikin and Wrangel; at Paris, after being shot five times by one Samuel Schwartzbar, "a Russian," who allegedly assassinated him in revenge for his onetime oppression of Ukranian Jews...
...Prof. Samuel Eliot Morison, of Harvard's history department has been writing perspective impressions of Harvard for the Harvard Alumni Bulletin after three years (1922-25) as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. An impression recently published beneath the terse statement which U. S. graduates and undergraduates instantly discerned a deep vein of truth, was to the effect that at Oxford college studies are called "reading" while in the U. S. reading is called "work." "If any material device could help matters it would be the abolition of roommates. At Oxford, only Americans and foreigners...