Word: d
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown, although her gates are open to both, and should be so in a land of equal opportunity. Far from being undistinguished in his undergraduate days, Faunce was one of the leading scholars in his class. You ought to know better than to suppose that the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. are conferred for postgraduate work. Instead of merely receiving these honorary degrees from his own university and from a small southern college, as you imply, a casual glance at Who's Who in America would have informed you that he holds the degree of Doctor...
...experience aroused no bitterness. In his writings on the peace negotiations he analyzed President Wilson with the lucidity, penetration, impartiality of a psychologist. He testified to an understanding, a sense of human tragedy which transcended the personal equation. Last week he died of heart disease in Washington, D...
...Work pitched the letter over his shoulder onto a mail-littered table. "Oh, I'll look that over later," he said. Mr. Raskob's emissaries bore another envelope, addressed to Herbert Hoover. At the latter's campaign house, they were received by Bradley D. Nash, the number-two secretary, a cheerful young gentleman (Harvard) with nice manners. Mr. Nash was embarrassed and courteous but, of course, Mr. Raskob's emissaries left without any answer from Mr. Nash's chief...
...Raskob replied by releasing the "red hot stuff." He put on display in Manhattan a collection of anti-Catholic propaganda, including a quotation from Republican Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky that Smith would "destroy the churches and schools...
...Joel D. Kerper who peddled drinkables to prominent Philadelphia clubmen & tycoons. Many of these flawlessly tailored citizens appeared to testify. 'Legger Kerper went to jail for 15 months, paid a fine...