Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garfield the largest (74). The Hoover head, unlike Chief Justice Taft's and Alfred Emanuel Smith's,† has no notable bumps or bulges. ¶ President Hoover last week accepted the resignation of Ben F. Wright as auditor of the Philippine Islands, appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President Hoover...
Married. Hamilton Hadley, 33, son of President-Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale University; to Miss Emily Hammond Morris, New York socialite; at Bar Harbor...
...panic-victim of 1907. Mr. Willys, who was then Overland's sales-agent in Elmira, snatched the company out of a receivership, putting up $350 to help meet a payroll. He reorganized the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, purchasing agent. Like Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Mr. Willys was once a cycle-maker. His bicycle plant was at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport, N. Y., the birthplace of Mr. Curtiss who later built up JOHN NORTH WILLYS Chicago bought him out. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., which Mr. Willys expanded and controlled during...
...sure a psychiatrist's services would straighten him out. Incidentally, there are two fine short stories which have been written on the subject- one, by Thomas Burke, appeared in the O'Brien anthology of Britsh Short Stories for 1923; the other, by one Frances Hammond (I think) in Snappy Stories in August, 1923. The latter was a genuinely fine piece of literature, and it is too bad that its subject matter condemned it to a magazine much looked down upon. It's title was "The Souvenir." In The Mill on the Floss George Eliot says: "I speak...
...Skipper Hammond did not have his tactful partner aboard last week, but no similar emergency arose as the Nina won another great race, 475 miles from New London, Conn., to Gibson Island, Md. Twoscore other yachts sailed out of New London in a dripping fog the day after the Harvard-Yale crew race. During that thick night the Teragram missed the stern of Malabar VIII by a scant six feet. Then came clear weather, smooth sailing. Sachem and Nina, the first two yachts around Montauk Point, got the best wind after the turn. The Nina came in seven hours behind...