Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juniors have agreed to serve as ushers for the Class Day exercises according to announcement made by William G. Morse '99, purchasing agent to the University. Mr. Morse has charge of arrangements for these exercises, which will be held during the year of June 14-18. Ushers will attend to comfort to guests and supply information...
Going to Geneva as an "observer," Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi was no less cocky. To the Committee of Thirteen's Chairman Don Salvador de Madariaga of Spain, he snapped: "I have not come here to talk peace. I have come to attend a meeting of the Locarno Powers...
...American Medical Association will meet in Kansas City next month. Some 7,000 U. S. doctors will attend that annual convention. But only 172 members, delegates for the 101,754 A. M. A. members, will have anything authoritative to say, and that only between the authoritative gavel hangings of the Speaker of the House of Delegates, 70-year-old Dr. Nathan Bristol Van Etten of The Bronx...
Chief Joseph B. Weaver of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection revealed that he had assembled some 500 cases of crew trouble, mostly at sea. The charges included refusals to attend fire drills, to keep sufficient steam up after reprimands for not standing watch. It appeared that a crew had refused to sail until a prisoner in jail ashore was released. One story was that fire-hose had been found mangled by axes after the ship left port. When these tales reached the Press, ship owners bitterly assailed what they considered premature publicity, declared...
...theory, the legal owners of a corporation assemble for an accounting of the stewardship of their property. In practice the annual stockholders' meeting is largely a matter of form. Only with the greatest difficulty can stockholders be persuaded to sign enough proxies for a quorum, let alone attend in person. The few stockholders who do attend can do little except talk, since the majority of the shares are generally voted, not by disinterested stockholder representatives, but by a management primarily interested in staying in office. Almost nothing short of scandal ever bestirs the absentee owners to a concerted effort...