Word: cameronism
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...Farm polo team: a game, 6 goals to 1, from the Westwoods, on the Norwood, Mass, field of Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes. Ambassador Forbes, 61, home for vacation, rode Leap Year and Highball in Gay Farm's No. 2 position, made one goal, helped score three others...
...week gripped Guatemala, U. S. Minister Sheldon Whitehouse was on vacation (TIME, Dec. 29, et seq.). When Alfonso XIII was driven from his throne, U. S. Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin was out of town (TIME, April 20 et seq.). Last week U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes sailed for a vacation in the U. S. the day Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Mukden...
...14th and 15th Centuries bubonic plague devastated Asia, Northern Africa and Europe, killed 60,000,000. Boccaccio's De cameron contains a vivid description of that epidemic in Italy: Daniel Defoe's History of the Plague of 1665 describes a visitation when 70,000 died in London. To prevent plague's spread, Venice segregated victims for 40 days (quaranta giorni) and thus originated quarantine...
Married, Mrs. Muriel Yanderbilt Church, daughter of William Kissam Yanderbilt and his first wife. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt; divorced wife of Frederic Cameron Church Jr.; and Henry Delafield Phelps of Providence. R. I.; at Mrs. Vanderbilt's Manhasset, L. I., estate; in a civil ceremony (Mrs. Church's first marriage had not been annulled by the Pope). Mrs. Church requested that instead of wedding presents the money be given to help the Unemployed. Just before the ceremony her favorite hunter got excited, bowled over tables, scattered guests every which...
...company began, still maintains its home office although it is represented in 191 cities. The directorate over which he presides includes James Bruce, president of Baltimore Trust Co. and brother of David K. Este Bruce, Secretary Mellon's son-in-law; Waddill Catchings; Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes; Banker David R. Forgan of Chicago; Drugman Louis K. Liggett of Boston; Howard LaVerne Wynegar, president of the company. Last week quiet President Wynegar saw no reason why the instalment business should not continue prosperous...