Word: chester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons, tripping over the extended feet of Mr. Eden, to unseal his lips in a tacit admission that the King does not demand that Mrs. Simpson be his Queen but only insists upon contracting a morganatic marriage and giving her one of his lesser titles such as Countess of Chester. "The only possible way," Mr. Baldwin tells the House of Commons, "would be by legislation dealing with a particular case. His Majesty's Government are NOT prepared to introduce such legislation! Moreover, the matters to be dealt with are a common concern to the Commonwealth [Dominions, India...
Last winter Dean Alfred Chester Hanford had old Manter Hall School and young University Tutors legally enjoined from selling copies of lecture notes on the ground that lectures were the common-law property of the University. Other bureaus have been dragged into court by publishers for mimeographing and selling digests of copyrighted textbooks. The small, hustling Parker-Cramer bureau sorely tries the University's patience by advertising a Pay As You Pass system that guarantees a grade of D, charges a sliding scale rate thereafter. And there has been a growing undercurrent of tales about students who have...
Nearly 24 hours before reaching Buenos Aires, Franklin Roosevelt's second official reception began. The Argentine battleships Rivadavia and Moreno, cruiser Almirante Brown and eight destroyers sighted the Indianapolis and its escort Chester off the coast of Uruguay, fired 21 guns and formed up behind as escort. When the Indianapolis arrived in Buenos Aires, President Justo and practically the entire Argentine and U. S. delegations to the Peace Conference were on the dock in top hats and full official regalia. "Mi amigo!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt as he seized his peer's hand and did one of his "great...
...Celebrating its birthday, Manhattan's 90-year-old Town & Country came out with a handsome 204-page issue, largest in its history, billed as America's "First Christmas Annual." Featured was a nostalgic article on old-time college proms by Town & Country's fashion editor, Mrs. Chester La Roche, sister of Cinemactress Rosalind Russell; descriptions by Sportsman Foxhall Keene of his 18 injuries sustained in sport; and a two-page, full-color spread of "The First Christmas" by Gentile da Fabriano in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence...
...back to work without better food and more financial consideration. Some of them said they had been training on wieners. Howard's students marched out of their classrooms on a sympathy strike. Thereupon Howard canceled the annual Big Game of Negro football, Howard v. Lincoln University (Chester Co., Pa.), scheduled to be played in Washington on Thanksgiving...