Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following this speech, T. H. Eliot '28 was chosen permanent chairman of the convention. When the organization was completed, the nominating speeches began. The first was delivered by James Roosevelt '30, who named Governor Smith as his choice amid an uproar of applause. Newton D. Baker, Thomas J. Walsh, James A. Reed, and Albert C. Ritchie were put in nomination following Roosevelt's speech. A. F. Reel '28 nominated Senator Burton K. Wheeler and a demonstration followed. C. C. Alpern '28 made a parody of Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech, in favor of Senator J. T. Henin...
...show where a U. S. doctor was shot down trying to save some Chinese young women from rape. Finally a whole packet of pins could have been used up on Chinese towns where bloodshed, starvation and atrocious cruelty held sway. Shrewd pinners pierced the following places as most significant amid the rapidly unfolding Chinese civil war and Japanese intervention...
Last week, amid deadly secrecy, the Suffolk was inspected for the first time by civilians, when three Cabinet members and 150 M. P.'s went aboard. The Admiralty, shrewd to the last, decreed that the torpedo rooms, and gun control stations should be locked and all instrument panels covered with concealing canvas...
...Amid cries of "Hear! Hear!" from members of all parties, First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman announced that the Admiralty Board has, in effect, reversed the moral implication of the sentences of "Guilty" recently passed at Gibraltar upon two officers of the Royal Navy who had complained against the shameful conduct and awful oaths of their superior, Rear Admiral Bernard St. Collard (TIME, March...
...power for two years. Then the collapse of the franc resulted in his being recalled to the Prime Ministry to restore the shattered finances of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). That task he has now magnificently performed and he turns for recognition and support to a proverbially fickle electorate. Amid the electoral complexities inseparable from French politics the supporters of the Sacred Union Cabinet of M. Poincaré are merely heavy favorites in a type of a race which is too often run with freakish results...