Word: attenders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formal luncheon was to be served in the State dining room. Among the prime guests was to be Frank Billings Kellogg, the Coolidge Secretary of State who brought to fruition the idea of France's Aristide Briand for such a treaty. Calvin Coolidge had also been asked to attend. There were to be band music, cameramen, a nationwide hookup...
...Thus far the Federal Government has borne the brunt of [Dry] enforcement. It seems to me the Governors' Conference might well consider approaching the Federal Government on some feasible proposal to share this burden. If the National Government were to attend to preventing importation, manufacture and shipment in interstate commerce of intoxicants, the State undertaking the internal police regulations to prevent sales, saloons, speakeasies and so forth, national and state, laws might be modified so as to become reasonably enforceable and one great source of demoralizing and pecuniarily profitable crime removed...
...they had been before the St. Davids pamphlet appeared. Victory seemed to perch on Tycoon Kylsant's standard, but it was not complete until the following afternoon when a meeting of the Royal Mail Debenture stockholders was called-a meeting which both tycoons were in duty bound to attend...
...ingenious analyses he often comes very close to truth about her daily doings. One afternoon she goes to the Trocadero Theatre to see a certain Lea perform. Remembering the Sapphic reputation this actress has, Marcel recalls his Albertine from the matinee. That night, Albertine having been anxious to attend a party at the Verdurins', Marcel goes instead, seeking the cause of the attraction, which develops to be one Mile. Vinteuil, a guest expected there. Follows a detailed description of the evening and those who attend. When he returns, Marcel's captive reveals to him her Sapphic desires...
General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were...