Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive committee of the Western Federation of Miners. Seven years later he was the defendant in a trial that made his name famous in the U. S. as it increased the fame of Clarence S. Darrow, who defended him, and that of a local Idaho politician, William Edgar Borah who prosecuted...
Despite the pleas of Bishop Bast's associates and friends, Bishop Edgar Blake of Paris and John L. Nuelsen of Zurich, the jury of 17 ministers upheld the charges, deprived him of his office. Also they agreed that a less severely penalized but more disgraceful accusation had been justified-namely, that Bishop Bast had gone on too many yachting trips with Mrs. Ellen Vedel, the wife of a Danish Government official. When informed of the verdict, which required only the expiation of an apology and which would permit him to continue as a member and minister of his church...
Rouge, powder, lipstick were sponsored as simples for sanity, last week, by Dr. Edgar George Thomssen at the 34th annual convention of the American manufacturers of toilet articles, at Atlantic City, N. J. An approving audience heard about insane women led back to lucid normality by being given cosmetics to play with. Those more scientifically-minded pointed to the fact that if during the deep depressions and maniac excitements of insanity, patients are oblivious of their appearance, become dirty, disorderly, slovenly when left to themselves, they would be equally oblivious of the daintiest creams and cosmetics. Only when the psychotic...
...Rockefeller Foundation, organized "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world," is headed by that distinguished after-dinner speaker, George Edgar Vincent, 64, who was formerly president of the University of Minnesota. Only last fortnight, another famed educator, Max Mason, 50, resigned as president of the University of Chicago to become director of the new Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation. Mr. Mason is to have both administrative and research duties...
Editor Cleveland recalled that Delta Upsilon, to which Charles Evans Hughes as well as the Vice President belongs, "gave Garfield to the Presidency"; that Beta Theta Pi has never "given" any one to the Presidency but that it enrolls Frank Orren Lowden, William Edgar Borah, Robert Marion La Follette. "And here is a scoop. . . . Harry F. Sinclair ... is a Phi Gamma Delta brother of President Coolidge. Will Hays is a former National President of Phi Delta Theta, which gave us President Benjamin Harrison...