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Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1836-1908, British statesman. Entering Parliament (1868) as a Liberal, he served as secretary to the admiralty (1882-84), secretary of state for Ireland (1884), and secretary of state for war (1886, 1892-95). He was knighted in 1895. In 1899 he was elected leader of the... Read more
Dalton Trumbo Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo Though he experienced success as a novelist and a screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) is best known as a member of a group he would have preferred never existed-the "Hollywood Ten." After refusing to cooperate during the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings in the... Read more
Sir Henry John Newbolt Sir Henry John Newbolt
Sir Henry John Newbolt 1862-1938, English poet and historian. He is best remembered for his vigorous and imperialistic poems of the sea, collections of which include Admirals All (1897), The Sailing of the Long Ships (1902), and Drake's Drum and Other Songs of the Sea (1914). The centennial... Read more
John Hartley Manners John Hartley Manners
Manners, J[ohn] Hartley (1870–1928), playwright. Born in London, he began his theatrical career as an actor and continued to perform for a time even after he turned to playwriting. He came to America in 1902 as a member of the cast of his own play, The Crossways, which he had written as a... Read more
Sir Edward Grey Sir Edward Grey
Grey, Sir Edward (1862–1933). Foreign secretary. Grey has been described as curiously ‘suspended between the world of high politics and rural isolation’, a man who sought refuge from the toils of office in fishing and ornithology. Behind the reserve lay a very determined and... Read more
Archibald Philip Primrose 5th earl of Rosebery Archibald Philip Primrose 5th earl of Rosebery
Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery, 5th earl of , 1847-1929, British statesman. He succeeded his grandfather as earl in 1868. A Liberal, Rosebery was undersecretary for home affairs (1881-83), entered the cabinet as lord privy seal (1885), and served (1886, 1892-94) as foreign secretary. His... Read more
Henry Fonda Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda 1905-83, American actor, b. Grand Island, Nebr. He had considerable stage experience, appearing in such plays as Mr. Roberts (1948), The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (1958), and Two for the Seesaw (1959). Fonda played honest, homespun young men in such films as The Trail of the... Read more
John (Milton) Hay John (Milton) Hay
John (Milton) Hay 1838-1905, American author and statesman, b. Salem, Ind. He practiced law at Springfield, Ill., where he met Abraham Lincoln . Hay accompanied Lincoln to Washington and was the President's assistant private secretary until Lincoln's death. The next five years were spent in minor... Read more
William Henry Drummond William Henry Drummond
William Henry Drummond 1854-1907, Canadian poet, b. Ireland. For several years he worked and practiced medicine in frontier Canadian communities. There he came to know the French Canadians, whom he celebrated in his best poems, using their dialect of English. His published volumes include The... Read more
Andre Derain Andre Derain
André Derain , 1880-1954, French painter. He studied for a short time under Carrière. Derain's friendship with Vlaminck and Matisse led to his association c.1905 with the fauves. Forceful in his application of pure, bright patches of color, he was for a while prominent as an exponent... Read more

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