Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty of the Plebiscitary Commission to function under the award and construe its meaning, but we may not alter, amend or revise...
...fluctuating diamond prices at once arose. Many people buy jewels as a sort of investment, and this type of buying was discouraged by the lively ups and downs of the prices for the white stones under natural conditions of supply and demand. Hence the De Beers Company assumed the function of buying, carrying and distributing at stable prices diamonds obtained from the South...
Andrew W. Mellon, onetime (1905-11, 1917-23) U. S. Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Charles M. Schwab and their associates on the Warren G. Harding Memorial Committee announced last week that they had fulfilled the function placed upon them of choosing a design for the $600,000 memorial to be erected at Marion, Ohio. The winning architects were Henry...
...filming of a Western picture, The Pony Express (James Cruze and Betty Compson). He reviewed a Frontier Days parade, was made a member of a Sioux tribe, abandoning his regular pipe for one two feet long with eagle feathers, was christened "Great White Father No. 2" (at the same function, Governess Ross was made "Princess Nellie Taylor"). He entertained a banjo-accordion-saxophone-violin orchestra in his rooms, and later played the piano for them for an hour. He reviewed the troops at Fort D. A. Russell, lunched with Senator and Mrs. Warren...
Three attaches of the French Treasury-MM. Barnaud, Roussel and Thion de la Chaume-left Paris to represent France in discussions at London of the French War debt to Britain. The commission of three was expected to function at once. Finance Minister Caillaux expected to be in London as soon as he could tear himself away from preparing next year's budget...