Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana's Broussard, the undecided Senator, a Democrat. "Nose-Holding." Southern Democrats could give the condition of the cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what the debenture plan amounts to. But Northern, city Democrats could give as their only reason a partisan desire to put President Hoover in a hole. As in 1924, they found themselves playing catspaw...
Close Harmony (Paramount). John V. A. Weaver wrote most of the dialog and Elsie Janis the story of this picture. Designed with no higher aim than to give Buddy (Charles) Rogers a chance to play the saxophone, it turned out better than you would expect. Nancy Carroll splits up a vaudeville team by flirting with each member in turn so that Rogers can get their booking. Best shot: vaudeville love in the back seat...
...Ohio), Bill Raskob Memorial Foundation (Delaware),* General Motors Corp. (Michigan), Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. (West Virginia). The Edison "Genius Hunt" consists in finding in each State the high school student who has most distinguished himself in scientific subjects during the present school year. In August, Mr. Edison will give the 48 students an examination, will take the one with the highest mark into his New Jersey laboratories for instruction (sometimes personal). The Governors of 18 states have already notified their Boards of Education to help hunt...
...Tuesday, May 14, at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, Professor Paul L. Dengler or Vienna. Director of the Austro-American Institute of Education will give an illustrated lecture on Children's Art as a Form of Creative Self Expression". All members of the School are invited to attend this lecture. It is open to the public...
...Tuesday, luncheon will be served to the Overseers, visiting committees, and the faculty in the inner lobby and first floor corridor of the west wing of Langdell Hall. After luncheon, the visiting committee and the Overseers will inspect the building. On Tuesday evening the Law School visiting committee will give a dinner at the Harvard Club for the members of the Law School Faculty. The exercises in Langdell Hall will close the official two day meeting of the Overseers...