Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee, distressingly fatigued after months of tariff-writing, was marched to the front portico of the Capitol by a dictatorial movietone cameraman. He was instructed to make a speech on the Hawley-Smoot (tariff) bill. For an audience the cineman commandeered Senator William Edgar Borah, hastening by to the barber shop for a much-needed haircut. Senator Smoot extolled his bill. Senator Borah looked glum. When the speech ceased Senator Borah turned, walked away. Cried the cineman, no student of tariff politics...
National Colored (at Bordentown, N. J.) ?men's singles, Edgar G. Brown of Chicago; doubles, Eyre Saitch of Harlem. N. Y. & Sylvester Smith of Baltimore: women's singles, Ora Washington of Chicago...
...provided medical services for 55,604 plantation employes, 89,053 non-employes, 31,726 ship's personnel, 57,592 ship passengers-a grand total of 233,975 souls, about as many as live in Akron, Ohio. General manager of United Fruit's medical department is Dr. William Edgar Decks, 63, McGill University graduate...
...night last week Dr. Edgar Wallace Knight, Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina, faced an audience of Southern teachers and students at New York's Columbia University Summer School. It was to be a semi-intellectual merrymaking, but Dr. Knight said...
Suddenly last week the U. S. threw an arm of protection about Citizen-Killer Harris, removed his case from the State to the Federal courts. Private Oklahoma citizens inquired how this could be done as Harris was no dry agent. U. S. District Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught put his fingers over his lips, whispered: "Private Government regulation...