Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commencement festivities will reach a climax today with Class Day exercises in the House triangle and in the Stadium. Nearly 8000 graduates and friends are expected to attend the rites and to march in the mile long parade to Soldier's Field...
Speaker Byrns appointed a committee of four to attend the funeral, banged his gavel for adjournment, went home to his suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Nine hours later the Grim Reaper paid another call, and lanky, bushy-browed, 66-year-old Joe Byrns lay dead of a cerebral hemorrhage, first Speaker in history to die while Congress was in session...
...William Green. Finding that he was unwilling to compromise with C. I. O. and unable to contribute any money, the committee requested a conference with Lewis. Telegraphed he from Washington: "May I suggest that it will be a complete waste of time for all concerned for your committee to attend this meeting unless you are prepared to carry out the instructions imposed upon your officers by the recent Canonsburg convention. The policy of fluttering procrastination followed by your board is already responsible for the loss of some weeks of time and must be abandoned. ... If you do not yet know...
...Speedway was first used as a testing ground for the automotive industry, but its Memorial Day race has long ceased to be anything of the sort. Major manufacturers who hate to see their cars finish anywhere but first, still attend the race in droves but rarely enter their products. First eight places in last week's race went to Miller engines, made by famed Harry Miller of Los Angeles or his long-time Assistant Frederick Offenhauser, to whom he last year turned over most of his patterns. Four-cylinder engines are more popular than sixes or eights because...
Unfortunately the University itself can't be as hospitable as it would like due to the fact that undergraduates will also attend the festivities and will be living in the undergraduate dormitories during this period...