Word: becks
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Nominee. The G. O. Politicians of Philadelphia who admire and obey Senator-elect William Scott Vare, met last week and nominated James Montgomery Beck for the U. S. House of Representatives. Mr. Beck used to be (1900-1903) Assistant U. S. Attorney General. He used to be (1921-1925) U. S. Solicitor General. He is an officer of the Legion d' Honneur, a Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgian). Since a Vare-machine nomination is tantamount to election, President Charles B. Hall of the Philadelphia City Council announced: "With Senator Vare in the Upper House...
...Mayor's immediate surroundings were the spacious gold-and-red apartments of the Hotel Crillon's prize suite, where President Wilson, General Pershing and the like had lodged before him. With twelve servants at his beck, the Mayor arrayed himself afresh and received newsgatherers. They noted a small rotundity under his natty waistcoat. He admitted his receptions had been bounteous. "If this keeps up much longer," he said, "I shall have to finish my vacation in a hospital. ... I will soon be developed enough around the middle to qualify for an alderman. . . . When I get my feet under my desk...
...Lionel Hallam Tennyson, grandson of Poet Tennyson and heir of the present Baron Tennyson; from the onetime Clarissa Madeline Georgina Felicity Tennant, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith ("Margot"); at London. The suit was not contested by Mrs. Tennyson. Her husband named as corespondent James Montgomery Beck Jr., of London, son of the onetime Solicitor General...
Next fall, the reports of the Student Advisors, instead of going to the CRIMSON and being blazoned forth--anonymously--to a gossiping and inquisitive world, will be at the beck and call of the Deans of the Class of 1931. A Freshman will fail to pass two of his November hour examinations, and from the recesses of University Hall will fly a message: "Bring us the advisor's report on Mr. Blank!" The Student Advisory Committee will go through its files, discover the desired report, and dispatch it posthaste to University 4. And presumably the Deans will peruse carefully...
Dunbar Dyson Beck, son of an Indianapolis, Ind., airbrake manufacturer, had submitted several canvases, the central one representing the eternal Madonna and Child in an "Adoration...