Word: closes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading the procession back into the president's office. Also recognized were Rev. David G. Wylie, Lord's Day Alliance president, and Rev. Harry Laity Bowlby, its secretary. Ranged around President Hoover, they made six small speeches each asking the President's support for a Sunday closing law for Washington, where baseball, cinema, sports, now enliven the Sabbath. "Thank you for calling," said the President as the delegation marched out again. In the lobby a newsgatherer asked Mr. Bowlby about the "blue law." He replied: "Not blue, but red-white-and-blue. . . ." Chagrined that the President...
...Dartmouth, pipe-smoking naval officers were sprawled on the Devon-green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...
With potent finance he was in close touch through Hill School and Yale friends. So as an operating executive he was well qualified when, one year ago. Aviation Corp. of the Americas bought Pan-American Airways, to make his project actual. During the past year he has opened passenger lines from Miami to Nassau, to Cuba and the West Indies as far as Porto Rico (a tourist route), to Central America via Brownsville, Tex. and Mexico City...
Liberal though he was, in business he was keenly conservative. In Manchester, cotton city, he retained many a political foe as a personal friend by financing cotton interests, giving authentic reports of the industry. The late great William Ewart Gladstone was his close friend, as were Tory Stanley Baldwin, Laborite Ramsay MacDonald and, of course, Liberal Leader Lloyd George. But more proud is he of friendships among other journalists, those from competing and antagonistic newspapers. They call him "The Grand Old Man of English Journalism." Editor Scott still talks of the time Woodrow Wilson traveled to Manchester to pay respects...
Philharmonic Travels. Next spring, between the close of Manhattan's symphony season (April 20) and Arturo Toscanini's engagement for the 1930 Bayreuth Festival (July), Mr. Toscanini will conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on a European tour similar in time and locale to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's tour (TIME, July...