Word: attendent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the President hastily summoned a tax conference at the White House. Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee and Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee dropped everything and flew to Washington to attend. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau drove around to the White House. They all had breakfast together. Afterwards they emerged, gave the official result of their conference to the Press. It was in the form of a letter from Secretary Morgenthau to the President...
...poured in from neighboring counties, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri. Every bar was packed to the doors. Down the main street tipsy merrymakers rollicked all night. "Hanging parties" were held in many a home. Sheriff Thompson's 17-year-old daughter sneaked out against her mother's orders to attend one. As before the execution of Rapist De Boe, one motorist was in such a hurry to get to the scene that he cracked up, killed himself...
This year's Senatorial campaign began at Lexington, across the Congaree River from Columbia, on June 9 and rolled on, a county a day, through the west central part of the State. After two weeks an adjournment was taken so that candidates could attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. By July 4 the tour had covered the southern "low country" counties along the coast, then skipped to the Piedmont. In mid-July the stumpsters knocked off for another week to allow voters time to harvest their tobacco crop, resumed their speech-making in the northeastern tier of counties...
...Duke, who also performed the hereditary duty of arranging the funeral of King George, had a distressing experience on that occasion. So many subjects decided to attend the funeral that London suffered its most awful squash, and 200 spectators had to be hauled off in ambulances...
...retreatants. There from one to three days the lay communicant usually meditates, prays, confesses, is sermonized. The retreatant contributes what he likes (average: $10). In the West, 1,200 laymen throughout the year retreat at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Sierra Madre near Los Angeles, while others attend El Retiro, San Inigo, a retreat conducted by Jesuits near San Francisco. A place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, President Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair (department store), President Frederick H. Massman...