Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smart, sharp-nosed Lewis Deschler, official Parliamentarian of the House-who ever since he came of age ten years ago has been advising the Speakers of the House on the abstruse technicalities of House procedure-had the eyes of the House upon him one afternoon last week as he marched up to Reading Clerk Alney Chaffee. Taking a large leatherbound volume from beneath his arm, the Parliamentarian laid it on the edge of the Clerk's desk and turned away. As he did so the volume began to slip. Alney Chaffee made a lunge for it but it escaped...
Therefore the appointment of Mr. James M. Landis, at the age of thirty-seven, as dean is of the widest interest. There will be general agreement, we are confident, that President Conant and the Board of Overseers could not have made a happier choice. There were many worried faces in Wall Street when to this earnest young professor was assigned the task of helping to tame the Stock Exchange. There could be no question of the adequacy of his background of learning or of the keen edge of his mind. He had been called the most brilliant student at Harvard...
Although only 37 years of age, Landis has already had a brilliant career as a scholar, legal expert, and government official He was born in Tokio, the son of a Presbyterian missionary. His first education was received there, for he did not come to America until he was 13. In 1917 he entered Princeton, where he was outstanding in both studies and athletics, and after graduation he attended the Harvard Law School from which he was graduated in 1924. He continued his studies and the following year became a doctor of judicial science...
...Bavarian-born fancy-dress designer who at the age of five made her first costumes for the fairy story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, now rents out 50.000 costumes. In Northwestern University's Thome Hall. Costumologist Schmidt was introduced by President Walter Dill Scott, after her speech was presented a velvet cushion topped by a large gilt and tinsel crown...
...other story, which was no scoop, had a two-column head: WIDENERS' $100,000 PARTY RIVALS GLITTER OF GILDED AGE; MUSIC ALONE COSTS...