Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voice went on, describing: "This room from which I speak was the scene of work and accomplishments of our Presidents for over a century. Into this room first came John Adams, who had taken over the reins of administration of the newly established republic from George Washington. Each President in the long procession of years down to Roosevelt worked at this fireside...
...hearings opened William B. Shearer himself, in a smart blue suit with a doublebreasted waistcoat and a red-striped necktie sat in. the front row. Beside him sat his New York lawyer, Daniel Florence Cohalan. Promptly Mr. Cohalan protested that Mr. Shearer should be called first to the stand. Senator Shortridge overruled him. First witness was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, President of New York Shipbuilding Co., subsidiary of American Brown Boveri. He told of a conference in which Shearer had been hired to go to Geneva: "The instructions were that he was to go as an observer and report...
Bombing Attack. The freebooting ally of Marshal Simmons, General Borah of Idaho, leader of the Republican irregulars, opened the battle by leading a bombing attack on Manufacturing City. As his mighty bombers swept over the smoking chimneys, he first dropped propaganda on the citizens: "The total value of the manufactures imported to the United States in 1928 was less than 3.4% of the total domestic production of manufactured goods in the United States. We are now living practically under an embargo, so far as manufactured goods are concerned...
...entrants in the Singles A division of the Union tennis tournament should play their first-round matches by Monday. The draw is now posted in Cowles' Shop...
...will meet on Wednesday and will be directed by Dr. Davison and by students in the course. It will provide practice in conducting for the students in the course and will offer all its members study and enjoyment of the best choral music. The chorus will meet for the first time on next Wednesday evening in Lawrence Hall on Kirkland Street...