Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereupon he put the box in a hole in the wall of the new building, and handed a marked brick to England's Astronomer-Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson. The Astronomer-Royal patted some mortar on the brick and with it plugged the hole-in-the-wall which contained the copper box. saying: "As is the custom of godfathers. I place the care of this magnificent observatory into the hands of its most capable parents...
...District Attorney George Emmerson Q. (for nothing) Johnson of Chicago, to be a U. S. District Judge (Attorney Johnson jailed Gangster Capone and nine other racketeers); Ernest B. Thomas of Rushville, Ind. to be a member of the Federal Farm Board (Rushville is the hometown of Republican Senate Leader Watson); Norman Armour, now Counsellor of Embassy at Paris, to be Minister to Haiti (a career diplomat, Mr. Armour diplomatically announced: "I'm as pleased to go to Haiti as I am sorry to leave Paris"). ¶ For his 58th birthday, President Hoover received: 1) a cake baked aboard...
...morning of the Twelfth known in the North for 20 years." The shooting season's inauspicious opening was not due to bad weather alone. U. S. lessors of Scottish estates were conspicuously few. John Pierpont Morgan was there, as were Tycoons Solomon Guggenheim, John W. Converse and Andrew Watson Armour. But many a moor was barren of beaters. Although bracken has lately been encroaching on the heather it was well filled with healthy birds, and those who had leases planned a season of hard shooting to reduce the big coveys to a few birds so that those that remained...
...born and whither she retired after his death by kidnapping five months ago. Born. To Princess Ileana of Rumania, sister of King Carol; and Archduke Anton of Habsburg; a son; in Vienna. Name: Stephan. Married. Walter Joseph Smith, 22, youngest son of Alfred Emanuel Smith; and one Florence Elizabeth Watson, 22, of Schenectady, N. Y.; in Schenectady. Married. Charles Sumner Fess, 35, son of Ohio's Senator Simeon Davison Fess; and one Myrtle Esther Kirkpatrick, 33, of Washington, D. C.; in Rockville, Md. Married. John Gilbert, 35, film actor; and Virginia Helen Briggs (Virginia Bruce), 21, film actress...
Married. Dunbar Wright Bostwick, Yale polo and hockey player, brother of Gentleman Jockey George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick (TIME, June 27); and Electra Webb, great-granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt and of James Watson Webb; at Garden City...