Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...estate of Jefferson Monroe Levy, onetime Representative from New York, onetime owner of "Monticello," famed seat of Thomas Jefferson, revealed that he died insolvent. In 1923 Mr. Lew sold "Monticello," which had been in the possession of his family since the Civil War, to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation for $500,000. He died...
...Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...
Died. Emily Todd Helm, 93, relict of General Ben Hardin Helm, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, supposedly the last lingering close associate of Abraham Lincoln; near Lexington, Ky. When President Lincoln offered him a union commission at the beginning of the Civil War, General Helm declined, joined a Confederate brigade organized by a friend of his father, was killed at Chickamauga...
Hector James Hughes '94, professor of Civil Engineering and dean of the Harvard Engineering School since 1920, died last Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in his home at 6 Clement Circle, Cambridge. Professor Hughes was suddenly taken seriously ill on February 23, following his return from the South. He had been suffering for some time from heart disease brought on by overwork, and had planned spending a sabbatical leave of absence for the second half of this academic year in England and Scotland...
Professor Hughes received his A. B. degree from Harvard in 1894, and after two years in Iowa as a railroad construction engineer and a short while as designer for the American Bridge Company of Pittsburgh, returned to Harvard in 1902 as an assistant instructor in civil engineering. His promotion to an assistant professorship came in 1903; in 1914, after a year as an associate professor, he achieved a full professorship...