Word: called
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats in the U. S. Senate were last week legally filled. Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsvlvania rounded out the roster by appointing Joseph R. Grundy of Bristol in place of William Scott Vare, rejected. The transformation of Mr. Grundy ?"Old Joe" as he likes his friends to call him?from a tariff archlobbyist to a full-fledged Senator caused some of his more volatile colleagues to gag and splutter furiously. In the end, for all the uproar against him, he took his seat with the apparent certainty of retaining it at least until next year, when he will...
There has been no official call for candidates for the sport, as the new swimming pool will in all probability not be ready before the first of March. However, Harold Ulen, who is to coach the Harvard swimming team when the sport gets under way here next year, has had 20 men under his charge this fall and has been drilling them in fundamentals in the Big Tree swimming pool on Holyoke Street. In this way he is laying a foundation for next year when swimming becomes a regular sport for Harvard...
...there has been an ever increasing undercurrent of feeling. From the Hague Conference down through the League of Nations and the World Court, clearer has come the cry for peace; and the nations of the world, weary and sick under their load of armor, are beginning to hear the call...
...shoul d call Gibson a contemptible little bounder," drawled English Mrs. Litvinov not long afterward, and she had a great many things in mind. They bear importantly on the strained relations between Washington and Moscow, relations which creaked last week when Statesman Stimson politely reminded Russia and China in identic notes of their obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to fight, only to be told by Comrade Litvinov with blazing scorn to mind his business...
...Manhattan's Municipal Building one Mr. Burgher presented himself to be married to one Miss Eaton. When they heard the clerk call "Burke and Egan," the couple mistakenly stepped forward, went through the brief legal ceremony. Later Mr. Burke and Miss Egan arrived and the mistake was realized. By that time Bridegroom Burgher and Bride Eaton, unmarried, were somewhere on their honeymoon...