Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brotherly Love, where politicians cannot afford to be brothers, has decisively defeated George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot for the Republican nomination for Senator from Pennsylvania. Mr. Pepper was commonly considered to be the Coolidge candidate, being backed heavily by the Mellon interests, and Mr. Pinchot in the gubernatorial chair in Harrisburg had enjoyed four years of unbroken popularity, especially with the miners of the western part of the state. The Democratic nominee is still to be considered, even in Pennsylvania, but Senator Pepper and Governor Pinchot seem headed for the sticks...
...Herbert Samuels, who chair-maned the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, May 10 et ante) made every effort to arrange a truce, last week, on the basis of his Commission's recommendation, and preserved jealously the high impartiality which alone may permit him to become an important factor in the settlement of the strike...
Last spring Mr. Stillman also endowed a chair of poetry at the University, which is to be known as the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship and the purpose of which is to be instruction in poetry, in its broadest sense, including language, music and the fine arts. The first recipient of this chair, who is to come to Cambridge next fall, is Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford, a noted British Classicist and man of letters. Mr. Stillman has also made a number of gifts of books and paintings to the Widener Library and the Fogg Art Museum...
...Under the order of the House, the Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Kahn)." (Applause.) Mrs. Kahn faced her fellow members, mustering to her aid history and tradition...
...love to spend the evening At peace with the world and you; A cozy room?a comfortable chair. And never a care? As long as you're there, The day may have its worries. For skies are not always blue? But when the day has flown, How sweet to be alone. At peace with the world in the evening with...