Word: 55th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madrid last week the League of Nations Council adjourned for the 55th time after sidestepping its two most explosive problems and passing others over for future study. By far the most picturesque meeting in its history, it was one of the least fruitful. General Primo de Rivera's government had contrived to make it, with the Seville and Barcelona Expositions (TIME, May 20), Spain's biggest show. Hampered by publicity, the Council members resorted more than ever to secret sessions and corridor conferences to get their real work done...
...Smith came home last week. On the day after his 55th birthday he had said goodbye to Albany, given Governor Franklin Roosevelt his blessing, left the capital while a band played "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." Then back to Manhattan he came, checked in at the Biltmore, began the theoretically obscure existence of a private citizen. The theory, however, proved unsound. Newspaper men, camera men, came to the Biltmore. They came to the Prudence Building, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, where Mr. Smith had opened an office.* They wanted to know what Mr. Smith was going to do now. Annoyed, Mr. Smith...
...announcement said that Miss Spence's school would cease to be a private enterprise; it would be endowed; four of the trustees would be Spence "old girls"; the new school building (to replace the present one on 55th street which replaced the original one on 48th street) will overlook the garden of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie on 91st street. It will house 300 day pupils and 60 pupils from far away. Classes will continue to be limited to eight members. Each pupil will still study ten or more subjects every year, in the famed Spence tradition of "varied curriculum...
...these obstacles looked small last week and Chicagoans as well as Southerners counted on seeing Oscar De Priest's large, dusky figure in the House chamber next session. The last Negro Congressman was Representative George Henry White who served in the 55th and 56th Congresses from Tarboro, N. C. Before him there were 19 Negro Representatives and two Negro Senators. A majority of them were members of Reconstruction Congresses and men of small education. Ten, however, went to college; five were lawyers; others were preachers, teachers, planters. Seven were born slaves. Both the Senators were elected in Mississippi. Senator...
...being a sport; when he played out of a bunker at the twelfth, a retired major with an umbrella shouted "Good cricket" and was silenced by the hisses of people who were afraid his enthusiasm would disturb Hagen's putting. The match ended at the 55th hole with Hagen 18 down...