Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President elected last week, according to the Association's custom of alternating male & female, was a woman: Florence M. Hale, director of rural education in Maine, who succeeded President Willis Anderson Sutton, superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Ga. One of N. E. A.'s vice presidents, she was elected without opposition, prompting Will Rogers to say: "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it. ... There was elected to a very high office . . . just a plain, pleasant-looking, fat (and enjoying it), commonsense woman. ... I guess from her name, 'Miss,' that she is an old maid...
...twelve Presidents have completed their seven-year terms: Emile Loubet, Armand Fallieres, Raymond Poincare and Gaston Doumergue. If the President is a snooper he can have great fun?for a duplicate of every letter, telegram or cablegram received by the French Foreign Office goes by right and custom to the Elys?...
Back to the Elysée drove President Doumer to receive the resignation of Premier Laval and his Cabinet. As custom decrees M. Doumer asked M. Laval to form on the spot a ''new'' Cabinet exactly like the old. He did so. He could then say: "I have been twice Premier of France...
...Daily Student would suggest that the University return to its former custom of honoring the graduates individually by calling them before President Bryan to receive their diplomas. It is believed that this would be appreciated, not only by the graduate himself, but by his relatives and friends who come here primarily to see him graduate...
...custom of Indiana university seniors receiving their diplomas direct from the hand of the president at the Commencement exercises has been abandoned in recent years. The reason for the discontinuance of this tradition was that with the ever-increasing number of graduates each June, the practice of individual presentation tended to make the affair too protracted...