Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proportionately entitled to and many another has less. Representative Fenn of Connecticut has long and often proposed a bill which, in its present form, would keep the House membership at 435 and reapportion the seats on the basis of the 1930 census, when taken. Estimates are that California would benefit most, gaining six seats. Next would be Michigan, gaining four seats; then Ohio, 3; New Jersey & Texas, 2; Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma & Washington, 1 seat each. Hitherto the States which are threatened with losing seats have been an organized bloc opposing Reapportionment. Now the would-be-gainers...
...fear is the impression your brutally frank description might make on your casual reader, who cannot realize the enormous significance of a personal experience like Beers' being turned to account for the benefit of mankind...
...message touched conventionally on foreign relations, taking the Senate's ratification of the Kellogg treaty for granted. Again the cruiser bill was urged ("I wish to repeat again for the benefit of the timid and the suspicious that this country is neither militaristic nor imperialistic"). Farm relief was urged-a revolving loan fund to help market surpluses; more research work, especially by the States. The Coolidge desires to see more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Spanish-soprano Lucrezia Bori made her first appearance of the season in Traviata, given under the patronage of the King and Queen of Spain for the benefit of the University City in Madrid. Importantly present in Box No. i were Don Alfonso of Orleans, Infante of Spain, first cousin of the King, his wife the Infanta Beatrice, sister of Queen Marie of Rumania. Ritually they joined the applause for tender, tripping tunes, for tender, tearful tunes. Gladly they heard next day that the performance had earned their home university some...
Tonight at 8 o'clock, a Harvard Night program will be broadcasted through radio station WNAC by the University Band in conjunction with the American Legion. The concert will be staged at Roseland Dance Hall as a charity benefit...