Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...territory of New Mexico. Then he plunged into law and politics. Reward came. He was elected the first U. S. Senator from New Mexico. Senator Fall, weighing 180 pounds,* wearing a wide-brimmed hat of the southwest, was popular in a frontierish sort of way. Most important was his friendship with that unimpressive, loyal group of which Senator Harding was one. Mr. Fall's hopes grew big when Friend Harding was elected President-perhaps he would be appointed Secretary of State, perhaps merely Secretary of the Interior...
...Minister to the U. S. He speaks French, Italian and Spanish, and understands English, but does not speak it. He hopes to learn it. Said the President in welcoming him: "The presence in this country of Her Majesty, the Queen of Rumania, is indeed a happy expression of that friendship and mutual consideration Existing between Rumania and the United States." ¶ An oil painting of the U. S. fleet entering Sydney harbor in 1925 was the gift brought by Sir Hugh Robert Denison, new Australian Commissioner to the U. S., when he was officially presented to President Coolidge...
...born in Philadelphia. His parents felt the pioneering urge and took him to California shortly after the first wave of the gold rush. There young Joseph found a home, a schooling, a wife, a passion for the law. In 1885 he was first elected to Congress, began his friendship with Representative William McKinley. As everyone knows, Mr. McKinley became President and appointed Mr. McKenna his Attorney General. The Supreme Court was the next step...
...Material help was not all for which the post-war student sought. He was deeply interested in the question of how the young academic generation might help to make forever impossible a cataclysm like that of the World War. Let us create bonds of mutual esteem and friendship among students of the world' reads the first resolution adopted at Strassbourg, and the founders immediately inaugurated a detailed program for a re-establishment of international academic relations. They inserted the National Unions of Students to establish permanent commissions for international student cooperation and to send annually five delegates from each country...
...Princeton sends a large number of its men to the graduate departments of Harvard each year: in the Law School its graduates rank in number second only to those of Harvard itself. I cannot see that the last number of the Lampoon will have any visible effects on the friendship existing between Harvard and Princeton graduate students, but it does seem a dubious method of encouraging it. We in the Law School have heard of Burke's saying that, "Law sharpens the mind must be narrowing while we are here, let it be by some other agency...