Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time earlier this summer he had considered going to Washington to attend hearings on the Public Utility Bill, but Patrick J. Hurley, onetime Secretary of War, had advised against it on the ground that A. G. & E. "might get the works if we appear." Mr. Hopson's lawyers in Manhattan also advised him not to go to Washington because at that time he was presenting a doctor's certificate saying he was too ill to appear before the New York Legislature's utility investigating committee in Albany...
...bill had been passed intact. Bob La Follette's politically preposterous notion that the bill should be turned into a respectable revenue raiser by taxing the "little fellow" had been shrugged off with two decisive votes. Share-the-Wealther Huey Long had not even bothered to attend the session...
...made Judge Fuchs a present of Babe Ruth. Dazzled momentarily by what he mistook for good fortune, Judge Fuchs soon learned that shrewd Colonel Ruppert had merely passed on his most perplexing problem. In June Ruth left the Braves in a rage because he had been refused permission to attend a party on board the Normandie. Last fortnight President Fuchs handed over his stock to Vice President Charles Francis Adams* and resigned. It looked as if the Braves would soon have to enjoy a miracle or go out of business. Last week the miracle occurred. It was a prospective buyer...
...France. On the high seas were 55 English Scouts, five Dutch, seven Hungarian, four Japanese, four Hawaiian, two Chilean, five Peruvian, one Danish West Indian. The jamboree was going to be the biggest & best ever held in the U. S. Each & every U. S. Boy Scout who expected to attend had contributed $25 toward building the Washington cantonment which comprised 1,440 tents, great central kitchens, troop kitchens, ice boxes, storehouses, shower rooms, toilets-every conceivable arrangement for the comfort, pleasure and safety of the jamboreeing Boy Scouts...
...sardonic member of the Swanee Sisters, she accompanies the action with a running fire of contemptuous comment on Raft, the radio, the Swanee Sisters' sponsor, a socialite party which the Sisters attend when they tire of Raft's monastic regulations of their conduct, worldly success in general. When the Swanee Sisters have executed a bewildering overnight rise from penniless unemployment to cabaret celebrity, Patsy Kelly is less pleased than truculently suspicious and, when a waiter hands her a caviar canapé, her dissatisfaction is complete. "What good is caviar?" she demands hoarsely. "It tastes like buckshot soaked...