Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once in the chair, Professor van Zeeland read to the Assembly an extremely long and conciliatory note from Italy most pleasing to Britain. It promised that Il Duce will not raise a great Ethiopian army of conscript blacks -the one thing Britain fears, since with it Italy might upset the balance of power in Africa-and concluded in Benito Mussolini's nearest approach to a dove-cooing vein: "Italy will consider it an honor to inform the League of Nations of the progress achieved in her work of civilizing Ethiopia. . . . Italy views this work as a sacred mission...
...ball admire the graceful, branching staircase, pass on to the drawing room, its walls hung with paintings of the voyages of Captain Cook. The amazing gilded furniture is the cele brated "Fish Set" presented in 1815 as a memorial to Lord Nelson by wealthy John Fish, who had the chair legs carved as dolphins standing on their heads...
...Spring of 1911 the Crimson published an editorial on "The Present Administration," giving a summary of and commentary on the development of the University during the first two years of A. Lawrence Lowell's occupancy of the President's chair. The Class of 1911 returns to Cambridge this week to find the situation strikingly analagous to that which existed when they left twenty-five years ago. The policies of the past great President are being crystallized and the policies of the new President are developing...
...Hampshire rushed about making statements to stir up enthusiasm for Candidate Frank Knox. Bald-domed Carl Bachmann from West Virginia bustled for Candidate Borah. But the spotlight burned steadily on the sleek, curly head of young John Hamilton, manager for Alf Landon. Perched on the back of an overstuffed chair in Cleveland's old-fashioned Hollenden Hotel, Hamilton had the Press basking at his feet as he announced that Landon would have over 300-no-over 400 votes, perhaps a majority (502 votes) on the first ballot...
...smart girls from 37 states smarter. Over this establishment for 36 years has presided massive, distinguished Mary Emma Woolley, longtime Friend of Peace. Last year President Woolley, now 73, sent her trustees searching for a successor. That they had been hard pressed to fill "May" Woolley's ample chair was evident last week when, announcing a "clean break with tradition," they chose as Mount Holyoke's third president neither a graduate nor a woman but Executive Fellow Roswell Gray Ham of Yale's Jonathan Edwards College...