Word: attends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supporting it with their votes. To seal this victory the Left's great champion, M. Edouard Herriot, made a booming plea for a vote of entire confidence in the Government's conduct, put it through 376-10-205, after which the Chamber adjourned. Said Mme Stavisky, after attending the funeral of her husband who was buried with dispatch in Chamonix: "I don't know whether my husband shot himself or not but there is no doubt that he would still be alive if the police had not left him without medical attention for two hours. My husband...
...Manhattan, 2,500 butlers, chauffeurs, chefs, valets, cooks, footmen ladies maids, parlor maids, chambermaids and scullery maids abandoned the houses of their socialite employers to attend the first Butlers" Ball at the Commodore Hotel. Its sponsor was Mrs. Marshall Field. Proceeds ($4 per couple) were earmarked for Bellevue Hospital charity. Beforehand, newshawks had cut loose with patronizing ribaldry about the "servants' night off," "Must the butler dance with the parlor maid?" and "We 'Awkinses and our gels." Hence newshawks were barred from the ball. Said Mrs. Combs, wife of Banker James Speyer's butler: "Because...
Just why he was out of a job was in dispute. United Air Lines said he had taken a leave of absence last autumn to attend NRA hearings in Washington, that he had neither returned to work nor communicated with the company, thereby automatically ousting himself. Pilot Behncke said he reported for work at Chicago Dec. 22, when he was called into the office of Vice President D. B. Colyer and discharged for four reasons: 1) he had not secured proper permission to attend NRA hearings; 2) the company assumed he had severed connections; 3) his activities and utterances...
...strode out on the green canvas floor of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week, and smiled his satisfaction upon the galleries. There was plenty to smile about, for not one seat in the huge house was vacant. A crowd of 16,000. biggest ever to attend a U. S. tennis match, had paid $30,125 to get in. Of that sum the Garden collected $10,500. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies got $3,760. Promoter Tilden, his business manager William O'Brien, and Ellsworth Vines, his opponent across...
...Pecora: Did you attend meetings of the board of directors at which the conditions of the banks were discussed...