Word: appearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mally S. ("Mai") Daugherty, small-town Ohioan, banker, brother of the onetime Attorney General, Harry M. Daugherty, refused to appear before a Senate investigating committee. Forthwith, he was ordered arrested on a Senate warrant for contempt. The Federal District Court of Southern Ohio released Mr. Daugherty; said that the Senate was usurping judicial power. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower court and gave to Congress sweeping powers. In order to legislate effectively, Congress has the right to summon witnesses, compel proper testimony, punish recalcitrant witnesses-said the unanimous,* emphatic and comprehensive decision handed...
...Lordship has the repute of being a sportsman. . . ." The wine sang, but served to charm from Lord Birkenhead only his normal reaction to a bounder. "Sir," he said, courteously enough, "I have never seen you before, and I have no desire to see you again." Pause. "However, since you appear to wish to lose ?100, I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven...
...entrance application for Princeton University at the last minute because of treatment which his brother had received at the hands of a Princeton football team. Professor George L. Owen, father of George Owen '23, is the signer of a letter released by Mr. Hubbard in which he offers to appear before a properly authorized committee and "relate in detail my personal impressions on this subject...
...American common wealth. There is the Valentino school of romantic acting, still flourishing although its originator has joined the immortals. And there is the Hearst school of journalism, the Herrin school of gun-toting, the Lardner school of bon-mots--schools innumerable. The latest addition to the ranks would appear to be the academy of Edna St. Vincent Millay; at least Edmund Wilson in the Nation, has named Miss Millay as the muse of Dorothy Parker, who has just emerged from the aureate glow of the Algonquin Round Table with a book of poems...
...article will appear in Liberty in about three weeks. Very sincerely yours, (Signed) Wynant D. Hubbard...