Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special session of the Senate called by President Hoover to confirm his Cabinet appointments was the shortest on record. It lasted only an hour and a half. During that time the nominations of eight members of the new Cabinet were confirmed. The names of the two holdover officers-Andrew William Mellon and James John Davis-had not been submitted by President Hoover. These omissions, and an ancient rancor, caused the Senate to adopt a resolution by Tennessee's loquacious McKellar directing the Judiciary Committee to report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration...
...walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built up a large hotel...
...Captain's two children, a boy of nine and a girl of eight, are his by a previous marriage. She?"Captain" Barker? was originally Miss Lilias Irma Valerie Barker, daughter of a rich, landed proprietor on the Isle of Jersey, Thomas William Barker, who died some 15 years ago. Miss Barker was in service at Mons and elsewhere in the War area as a Red Cross nurse and ambulance driver. In 1918 she married an Australian officer, Colonel Harold Arkell Smith, who begot her two children. Some five years later she discovered her tendency to transvestism, yielded to it, renounced...
...contraction when circumstances require," argued Mr. Warburg. He blamed "structural defects" of the Federal Reserve System, rather than the System's personnel. Action of the System, he said, cannot be prompt or decisive when it depends upon 120 men in twelve separate boards working with a central board of eight men "who may be wide apart in their views and bewildered by political influence...
Four Crimson men qualified in the individual events. D. I. Modell '30 put up the most brilliant exhibition of the evening when he won eight bouts in the foils and lost only one. His teammate, M. U. Copeland '29, won six and lost three, and will accompany him to New York...