Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Budget. He found that it was his duty for the most part to prevent appropriations rather than provide them. Last week, wondering whom to put in Mr. Madden's committee chair, Republicans could think of no one possessing comparable knowledge and integrity. Choice seemed to lie between Indiana's Wood, Michigan's Cramton, Idaho's French...
Judge Moore is at present 67, but still robust, brisk and apparently untouched by care. A native of Delaware, he studied law, then entered the State Department Service at 25. So evidently potent were his talents that at 31 he was called to the Chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University. Since then he has been recalled to Washington several times to serve as Assistant Secretary of State. In 1913 he was chosen a member of the old Hague Court (The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague) ; and in 1921 he became a judge of the World...
Professor Munro has been associated with the University for 23 years, having been, prior to 1925, professor of municipal government, and since that time the encumbent of the chair he now holds. For the past two years he has divided his services between Harvard and the California Institute...
Boldest of the witnesses was a small, bent, greying woman. Like a Fury she raged at Herr Badchis, "You ordered my daughter's arrest and thought you could make her talk. When she kept quiet your men strapped her into a chair, an electric chair...
...ring and sat down in his corner, people always felt sorry for his opponent. How terrible it would be to face that hunched body with the enormous shoulders, endure the glare of those narrowed black eyes. . . . Last week in a District Court in Manhattan Jack Dempsey climbed into a chair and sat down. He had on a new suit, his fierce black eyes looked sheepish. He stuck his thumbs into the pockets of his vest and wriggled them. He took his watch out of his pocket and played with the stem. He put it back in his pocket and played...