Word: brief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President made a brief announcement that following the recommendation of the Attorney-General he would issue no pardon to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, in jail for contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...
...list of the constituent committees and their chairmen, together with a brief outline of the work of each committee follows...
...ceremonies were conducted in the court room of the new Langdell Hall. President Lowell opened the exercises with a brief welcome, and after pointing out the need for trained lawyers in our present day civilization, called on Roscoe Pound Dean of the Law School and a member of President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission...
...week's work in obtaining the lukewarm informal acquiescence of 27 nations. Prime Minister Briand presently left Geneva, returned to Paris, received the formal assent of his Cabinet to what he had done. Then he went off to his farm at Concherel on the coast of Normandy for a brief vacation. "I shall probably take a short sea trip in a very small yacht," he said, "the smaller the better, for the sea was my first love...
...Saturday morning, at 8:45 o'clock, Roger Bigelow Merriman, Guerney Professor of History will preach at a fifteen minute service in Appleton Chapel. At 9 o'clock the Freshman Class and other new students will assemble in the New Lecture Hall to hear brief talks on the "Choice of Studies for the Freshman Year" and on "Freshman Course Requirements." The Secretary of the Committee on the Choice of Electives, Mr. Delmar Leighton, Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics, will deliver the first of these talks, and Professor Charles Holt Taylor, Assistant Professor of History, will deliver...