Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stiff. Senator Curtis offered an amendment which would have allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to reverse any wage settlement if it was likely to cause an increase of freight rates contrary to the public interest. He brought together only 12 votes for his proposal. For five days this little band of ill-assorted comrades in arms stuck together -Republican leader and Democratic leader against the majority of their parties. Underwood, the Conservative Democrat, and Reed (Mo.), the apotheosis of opposition, were also with them. Moses, the Regular Republican, and Norbeck, the Progressive Republican, were with them - each of them...
Explosion. While the Marshal brooded, a band of Nationalists, infuriated by his press tirade against the Nationalist Witos Cabinet, rushed without warning upon his house, surrounded it, called to Pilsudski to come out and be thrashed. Thick-witted, they had not cut his telephone wire. With a lion's leap the Marshal seized the instrument, shouted the number of the nearest army barracks, bellowed a command to the astonished officer who answered. True Poles, every soldier in the barracks seized his gun, rushed frenziedly to the rescue of the man who symbolizes Polish freedom - whatever his extragavances of temperament...
...Elizabeth Robins Pennell was a Phila delphia girl, born in 1855. Educated in a Paris convent and at Eden Hall (Torresdale, Pa.), she married Joseph Pennell in her 30th year. She is the author of a life of Mary Wollstonecraft and (with her hus band) of a life of Painter Whistler...
...were elected to the offices of the University Band at a recent meeting of the members. Ambrose Francis Keeley '27 of Fall River was chosen Director; Robert Thornion Smith '27, of Saco, Mc., was elected President; Randolph Piper '27, of Lexington, Manager; Charles Philip Engelhardt '28, Secretary; and Samuel Ganz '28, Treasurer and Louis Burton Benjamin '29, Librartan. At this same meeting, 27 men were elected to the Harvard University Band Club...
...also decided that beginning next year, a new policy of electing members to the Club would be inaugurated. The Harvard University Band Club started in 1919 is a body of about 50 men elected on the basis of their past season's work in the Band...