Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howland, president of the National Life Insurance Company; ex-Gov. Fred H. Brown and Charles G. Du Bois, president of the Western Electric Company. That such a board of trustee can control a genuinely progressive educational institution is proof that no generalization about capitalist control of our universities can explain all the reaction and suppression. New York Nation...
...departments, open only to Sophomores, and a competition open only to 1925 men for the editorial department, will commence next Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in the Crimson building. At that time the President will talk briefly with all prospective candidates then assembled. Later the department heads will explain in detail to their respective candidates the work in their particular branch of the organization...
...would walk aristocratically into a distinguished hotel wearing a rusty gown, pinned up the back, shabby, "at the elbows." She was an aristocrat, but chiefly in manner. She did not speculate with her wealth, but invested in railroads, in Standard Oil. She was of Quaker stock, which may explain her frugality, but she turned Episcopalian. She married Edward H. Green. She replied to Suffragists who requested her aid: "I do not approve of Suffrage. A woman's place is in her home, taking care of her husband and children. I took care of my husband and his stomach...
...American by the name of Melin Seymour, in a carriage. Before the fountain they stopped and took some pictures. Immediately the crowd rushed upon the Americans, crying out that they were Bahaists. They dragged them from the carriage, cut them, beat them. In vain did native servants of missionaries explain that the Americans were not Bahaists. The police were powerless to stop the infuriated mob. Four hours later, Vice Consul Imbrie was dead; Seymour was taken to a hospital in a critical condition...
...unsuccessful endeavors of Peter Augustus Jay, U. S. Minister to Bucharest, in attempting to dissuade the Rumanian Government from enacting a bill prejudicial to the interests of U. S. capital in Rumania had but one result: able Diplomat Jay is returning to the U. S. to explain to the State Department the complicated situation...