Word: fulls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Charles Francis Adams, Ambassadors Charles Gates Dawes (Britain), Hugh Gibson (Belgium), Dwight Whitney Morrow (Mexico). Likewise he smoothed out a case of hurt pride when he induced Rear-Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, to accompany the U. S. delegation to London as a "naval adviser." Admiral Jones, a full-fledged delegate to the fruitless conference of 1927 at Geneva, was represented as feeling he should go to the London parley in the same capacity or at least authorized to veto any agreement which he felt did not protect the U. S. Navy. He did not accept his "advisory" role...
...Exposition, commenced a brief address, consisting almost entirely of syllables. The current had not been turned on, the Duke's voice could not be heard more than a few feet away. He turned to the exposition chairman seated beside him, just as electricians turned on the loud speakers full force. Instantly a Gargantuan voice boomed through the Stadium: "THE D-D-D-DAMN THINGS W-W-W-WON'T WORK...
...hours later, a full hour after the Tiger had found oblivion in total stupor. Death came. Correspondents quarreled and kept on quarreling over whether Mme. Jacquemaire and Sister Theoneste were present at the end. They were not present when Clemenceau of France lost consciousness...
...this agreement was not so much a promise of an orgy of unusual spending as a pledge not to curtail ordinary expenditure. In order to keep production up, each line of business must be sure other lines are running at full schedule. In this way did the conference give each leader assurance that he would be left holding no bag. Rumors of curtailment were denied. Merchant Jesse Isidor Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. said it was not true he had laid off 1,200 employes but that he had discharged 28, taken on 200. Other executives spoke along...
...mental hygiene dinner last fortnight gave an erroneous impression. Yale was not the first school to have a staff psychiatrist. Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles started Yale's mental hygiene work. He is now consultant in mental hygiene in the Department of University Health. Harvard, Minnesota and Chicago likewise have full-time psychiatric staffs for their students. Brown, Washburn (at Topeka, Kan.) have special services. The colleges for women have been more progressive in providing mental hygiene experts, viz. Smith, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Wellesley, Elmira (Elmira, N. Y.), Pembroke...