Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsomely arrayed in the uniform of a Royal Hussar, the tallest of the King's tall sons received a warm greeting from Governor General Sir Isaac Isaacs, a tumultuous welcome from half a million cheering Australians. That Prince Henry, 34, is being groomed for the Governor Generalship was last week no State secret. Grand climax of the Melbourne Centennial-the one thing which last week was of interest to all the world-was the MacRobertson Trophy Race from Mildenhall to Melbourne...
Legend: Aboard the Hussar was $4,000,000 in gold destined for British troops. (A U. S. correspondent, searching through admiralty and treasury files in London, found no record of lost gold. Yet an historian of Manhattan Island-Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes-reports that the Hussar's rudder was recovered in 1811, that attempts to recover the treasure were made in 1818 and 1824, that some gold was actually brought up in 1856 by Worcester Hussar...
...Isaac Sweetser Scholarship: Henry S. Warren, 4M, of Brookline, Mass...
...Founder Isaac Merritt Singer had no sooner launched his enterprise in 1851 than he became involved in countless lawsuits with Elias Howe and other sewing machine inventors. Founder Singer paid his lawyer, Edward P. Clark, in Singer stock, and it was not long before Mr. Clark's interest was as big as Mr. Singer's. But Founder Singer was quite content to leave the business in Mr. Clark's hands, departing for Europe, there to live a gay and gaudy life, in which there are legends of no less than nine wives and 21 children. The Clarks...
...most outstanding Mayflower descendant residing in New York in 1933." More famed for his Dutch ancestry, the President can claim Mayflower descent in 16 lines from no less than ten passengers: Richard Warren, Francis Cook, John Cook, Mr. & Mrs. John Tilley and Elizabeth Tilley, John Howland, Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Allerton and Mary Allerton...