Word: hiram
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Bingham Robbed. U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, onetime Governor of Connecticut, big-boned Honolulu-born Yankee, explorer, archaeologist, World War aviation Lieutenant-Colonel, onetime Yale professor, and father of seven sons (one of whom is studying Chinese in Peking) was set upon in his private car by Chinese soldiers last week, in Honan Province...
...nephew, Hiram Percy Maxim, invented the Maxim silencer. His older brother, the late Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, produced the Maxim machine gun which was standard equipment for most of the armies of the world before the War. Sir Hiram once accused Hudson of posing as the inventor of this gun and attempting to infringe upon his (Hiram's) name by setting up a company Under the name of "H. Maxim:" The two brothers were never reconciled after this...
...Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, big-boned Yankee, father of seven sons, one of whom is now studying Chinese in Peking, arrived at that city last week, and was entertained by the great Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and North China, amid peculiarly harrowing circumstances...
...Associated Press later reported: "Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, after an interview with Marshal Chang Tso-lin, the Northern Chinese leader, yesterday, was the guest of the Anglo-American Association at luncheon today. He made a speech recounting humorously his adventures as an explorer in Latin-American countries...
Professor Lewis who, on September 1, will become Professor of Marketing at the Business School, is a graduate of Lawrence College, and received his A. M. at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at Hiram College and then went to the University of Idaho as Professor of Economics. In 1920 he went to the University of Washington where, since 1923, he has been Dean of the College of Business Administration...