Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker, forthright, vehement, was not the President of Mexico, Plutarcho Elias Calles. He was instead the Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah. He was commenting on the release to the press last week of an exchange of notes between the U. S. and Mexico. He concluded: "There is a difference of view between the two Governments as to the effect of Mexico's Constitution and laws upon property of Americans. . . . Undoubtedly emphatic language has been used. . . . But I do not find in the notes any threat, any ultimatum. ... I do not think...
Among professorial indictments of the modern college student that of Dr. J. Edgar Park, President of Wheaton College, is not the least severe. In a speech before the Radcliffe chapter o Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Park declared that crowds whose search for knowledge is merely subordinate to a desire for pleasure, are debauching American institutions of learning. "Comparatively few students are at our American universities for the purpose of scholarship," Le says. And, he adds, efforts to instill a love of learning in, barren minds, are as casting pearls before swine...
...Married. Edgar Lewis Marston, 66, financier; to Mrs. Anne Ellis, 36; in Los Angeles; by the eminent Dr. Charles Frederic Aked...
Eight members of the Junior class were approved as members of Phi Beta Kappa. These men were: Ernes; Theodore Berkeley, Alfred Louis Bletweiss, Edgar Malona Hoover, Jr. Carroll Henry Jones, Jr. Hyman Sobel Israel Solomon Stamm and Martin Tall...
...Married. Edgar Lee Masters, 57, author of Spoon River Anthology and more recently of prose; to Ellen F. Coyne, 27, of Kansas City, Mo.; in Manhattan. It was the groom's second marriage, his first wife, Helen Jenkins Masters, of Chicago, having divorced...