Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he said: "I wish that there was a Magruder in every Department of the Government" (TIME, Oct. 3), Senator William Edgar Borah may have had Aladdin's lamp in his ample lap. A moon had not passed when, last week at San Diego, Calif., there rose up another "Magruder," this time in the Department...
Yale appointed Charles Seymour, suave & able Chairman of the History Department, to be Provost of the University; appointed also Shakespearean Actor Douglas W. Ross to be drama coach, to succeed Edgar M. Woolley...
Three years ago, in Argyle, Ill., Pastor Edgar Smith organized a picnic. At the picnic, he chose 31 of the 40 people who live in Argyle to sing in his choir. At first their anthems were jerky. Then they improved. They were asked to give concerts in the towns and villages near Argyle...
Freshmen of the University of Virigina fidgeted at the convocation, last week, of the institution's 104th academic year. Thomas Jefferson founded the school; Edgar Allen Poe roistered there. Roistering long ago yielded to sly escapades in Charlottesville and pranks along the countryside. Scholarship persists, and so lively and alert that businessmen like to address the students...
Senator Fletcher's view coincided precisely with that of Senator William Edgar Borah, Republican chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, whose prime concern was that the present Government policy of peaceful adjustment in Mexico should be continued...