Word: tennant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of Pennsylvania's Congressman Beck; and Mrs. Clarissa Tennant (Tennyson) Beck, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, daughter of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon; a six-pound son, a five-pound daughter, twins. Mrs. Beck's first husband (divorced) was the Hon. Lionel Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet...
...Bernt Balchen and Radioman Harold I. June. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr.,* one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund. They named one peak for the expedition's cook, George Tennant, and seeing a bay in the ice barrier, "said Commander Byrd, "to name it Hal Flood Bay, after my mother's brother...
...this flight, making it as exciting and important as he modestly and scientifically could. But after all the polar flights that there have been and in view of the highly technical, if not nebulous, value of the Byrd observations, the aerial discovery of the Rockefeller Jr. Mountains, Cook Tennant's Peak and Hal Flood Bay did not make a sensational newspaper story. Pure science is seldom sensational, and Commander Byrd's report clung to the phrase: "Another river crossed...
...Author. Emma Alice Margaret Tennant was one of twelve children, born and bred on just such a Scottish estate as Dunross, and Laura, her favorite sister, was just such a charmer as Octavia. Upon Laura's death, Margot sought consolation in London, slumming, dancing, falling often in love. In 1894 she married a widower, Herbert Henry Asquith.* Her two children are Elizabeth, who married Rumanian Prince Bibesco, and Anthony ("Puffin") who directs cinema...
...Telegram and 25 other Scripps-Howard newspapers, W. T. Dewart of the New York Sun, also General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press; also Editor Carr Van Anda of the New York Times, Julian Starkweather Mason of the New York Evening Post, H. S. Pollard and John H. Tennant of the New York Evening World and Marc Rose of the Buffalo News; also Editorial Writers Walter Lippmann (World) and Rollo Ogden (Times); also Vice President Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun. Among notable absentees was Editor Arthur Brisbane of the New York American, chief of the Hearst press...