Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lesser men than he were among the seven U. S. Presidents whom Elihu Root has counseled. In 1908 his own qualifications for the Presidency were unequalled. Teddy said he would crawl on hands & knees from the White House to the Capitol to make Root President. Then he chose Taft as his successor. He knew, as Republican managers did again in 1916, that Statesman Root was simply not "available." He was too brilliant. Politicians had long since learned that the U. S. electorate distrusts high intellect and imperturbable calm...
...story that it has the rights to a valuable Eagle oil field, has been suing Eagle with great success in the Mexican courts. Appealing last month to the Supreme Court, Eagle was obliged to put up a bond of approximately $10,000,000, winner take all. Eagle chose London's Midland Bank as a safe place for this huge stake, the largest cash bond in Mexican history. Last week the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that it must be deposited in a Mexican bank. To add to Eagle's woes, the Mexican Government abruptly issued a sweeping decree that...
...show a little ability on its own account. Despite the fact that A. F. of L. elaborately pretended to quasi-official status in its enrollment drive, of the 46,000 workers involved in the National Labor Relations Board's first 102 plant elections, less than 20,000 chose to be represented by the Federation. More significantly, only 10% of all employes in manufacturing have so far taken out A. F. of L. cards. One explanation is that the Federation, long dedicated to regimentation along craft lines, is out of step with modern industrial organization. Another is that the Federation...
...keep track of what was happening. The campus was decorated with statues made of ice and snowmen twelve feet high. The first night of the Carnival, the Outing Club gave its pageant-"Jottunheimer Eiskorneval"-a preposterous affair about Norwegian snow gods and a fancy-skating maiden. A committee chose Pauline Webster of Detroit, a pretty blonde girl who works on the Detroit News, Queen of the Snows, but no one could find the silver cup on which the Queen's name is annually engraved. A freshman, Richard Durrance, was crowned King...
Unable to get off the mat in the first two minutes, the wrestlers tossed and Emory, winning the toss chose to go down in the referee's hold under Pesek. Pesek was quickly thrown twice to give the Harvard captain the bout...