Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee of members of the American Institute of Architects appointed by the Treasury Department, the Fine Arts Committee of the District of Columbia, the Supervising Architect and the United States Public Buildings Com-mission approved and recommended the use of Indiana Limestone for at least the first two buildings, those for the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Department of Commerce...
...patently political appointment, but far from scandalous. A product of Louisville, Commissioner Lucas, now 41, was elected city police court prosecutor in 1917, his first public office. Blackhaired, handsome, alert, the young man managed to outshine the higher court officials of the time...
...Republicanism in Kentucky depended upon the Lucas appointment as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. President Hoover reluctantly acquiesced. Good man though Kentucky's Lucas might prove to be, he did not, at face value, represent the big-bore, experienced businessman that had been prescribed by Treasury chiefs and first-class Senators to administer the vital tax-collecting branch of the Government...
Syracuse, New York, May 31--Harold S. Ulen, internationally known swimming coach of the University of Syracuse, is expected to resign that post in order to become the first swimming coach of Harvard University, it was learned here today from semi-official but usually trustworthy sources...
...around undergraduate life which began with good conditions for the Freshmen, carried through the athletic and other student interests, and came to a climax in the House Plan, which Edward S. Harkness, '97, has just made possible. In scholarship at Harvard President Lowell has held clear ideas, first to make the Harvard Bachelor's degree stand for high grade of work, and secondly to awaken student interest in scholarship for its own sake. He has, for instance, modernized the choice of studies, broadened the entrance requirements, built up student interest in Honor degrees and, perhaps most interesting of all, introduced...