Word: becks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they may work as a team instead of separately or antagonistically. Neither is it as a whole a body of nobodies and underlings, for all its roster of assistants, even to the fourth power. It includes such men as Dwight W. Davis (Assistant Secretary of War), James M. Beck (Solicitor General), Theodore Roosevelt (Assistant Secretary of the Navy), A. T. Seymour (Acting Attorney-General...
...arrived in charge of Harry Craven, and will be mounted in a special Australian hall. It contains skins and skeletons of climbing kangaroos, flying phalangers, bandicoots, two very rare musk kangaroos, wombats, Tasmanian devils, spotted dasyures and other exotic beasts. The Whitney South Sea Expedition, under Rollo H. Beck, has found specimens of a number of birds either unknown or long thought extinct, including Peale's petrel, the fruit pigeon of Rapa, red-tailed tropic bird, shearwater and others. Every island group in Polynesia has its own species of warbler, with amazing variability...
...sugar scandal is the perpetual injunction petitioned for by the Government to restrain the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and the Sugar Clearing Association from carrying on any more speculative dealings in sugar. The injunction petition bears the signatures of Attorney General Daugherty, Solicitor General James M. Beck and five assistants representing the highest legal talent in the Government, and aims to " make the gamblers in sugar remove their roulette wheel from the American breakfast table...
...James M. Beck, United States Solicitor General: " In a speech before the D. A. R., I told them: ' You ladies will learn what we men have already learned, that the most overrated institution in America is the ballot box. . . . The home, the church, the theatre and the press as institutions for disseminating ideas are like 42-centimeter guns beside a popgun when compared to the ballot...
...Beck.--1-30, N. L. Bean '25; 31-47, J. D. Lodge '25. 9 Bow Street.--G. W. Burgess...