Word: tanner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, to establish the reality of divine law, Spiritualist Herbert Tanner engaged an Egyptian vaudeville trouper to lie buried in his churchyard for two hours, "demonstrate" that the dead are only in a trance. Police dug up the Egyptian, fined him $25 for not having a burial permit, $25 for performing the services of an undertaker without a license...
...lectures for the public school children, given under the auspices of the Germanic Museum, will be given by Mrs. D. B. Tanner of the Boston Museum, instead of by Dr. Charles L. Kuhn as was previously announced...
...dignitaries-Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Lord Moynihan. president of the Royal College of Surgeons; Professor William Wright, president of the Anatomical Society; William Foxley Norris, dean of Westminster and of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath; Sir Edward Knapp-Fisher, chapter clerk of Westminster Abbey; and Lawrence Edward Tanner, keeper of muniments of Westminster Abbey...
While the others watch, Professor Wright and Mr. Tanner for five secret days carefully, gently and awfully measure each & every princely bone. They photograph them, wrap them in finest lawn. Dean Norris replaces the bones in the urn with a statement on parchment of what has been done in June 1933. The Dean reads part of the Anglican burial service. The urn is resealed and replaced in its niche in Westminster Abbey. King George gets a confidential report, which he permits Anatomist Wright and Muniment-Keeper Tanner to reveal...
...eminence "in the fields of hydraulics and water supply, fire insurance economics and analysis of earthquake effects." Sued. Harold Fowler McCormick, 61, chairman of the finance committee of International Harvester Co., sometime husband of the late Edith Rockefeller Mc Cormick and of Operasinger Ganna Walska; by Rhoda Tanner Doubleday of Santa Barbara, Calif., onetime wife of Felix Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank N. Doubleday) ; for $1,500,000, for breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace...