Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midweek, with his briefcase in one hand and a cardboard-roll carton containing his favorite fly rod in the other, Adams boarded a United Air Lines coach flight for Washington to attend meetings of the Cabinet and the National Security Council. When he arrived in Washington, reporters asked him why he had traveled coach rather than first class or by Government plane. Said Adams (who used to carry his lunch to the office in a paper bag when he was governor of New Hampshire in 1949-53): "You can save a lot of money that...
...building, which probably stood on the present site of Matthews, opened two years later. The project, however, soon ran into difficulties. According to the London Society's grant, Indians would attend the College so that "preserving their own language, they may obtain the knowledge of other tongues and dispense the Indian tongue in the College." The trouble was that few aborigines cared to obtain knowledge or to dispense it. Those that did try to enter Harvard, about twenty in all, came hopelessly unready for higher education and had to be prepared for entrance in local prop school's at Harvard...
Berman spent all but one day of his visit, which lasted till September 13, in Moscow. Besides his trade conferences, he met with leading Soviet judges, attorneys, and professors of law. He had extended opportunities to inspect court records and attend sessions of various courts. He then spent one day visiting the monastery at Zagorsk, 50 miles from Moscow, and talking to peasants along...
...Serious constitutional and legal complications surround the delegation of presidential powers when the President is too ill to attend to public business. The Constitution says that "in case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President . . ." But the Constitution fails to define "inability," and does not say who shall determine when it starts and when it ceases. The problem arose during the 80 days that President James Garfield lived after he was shot...
...pair of suave talkers went from one freshman dormitory to another, telling the students that they were representing a "Senior Welcoming. Committee for Freshmen." They told them that this group was planning to throw "a giant blast," the night of Oct. 15, which all students, coaches, and faculty "would attend." The site of this projected party was the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel...