Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ulysses S. Grant-Smith, U. S. Minister to Uruguay...
...complete list of ushers follows: A. S. Bigelow '30, R. O. Bishop '29, A. G. Churchill '30, Morton Cole '29, James de Normandie '29, F. S. Grant '29, J. W. Hutchinson '29, W. J. Iselin '29, O. P. Jackson '29, R. W. Meadows '29, A. N. McGeoch '29, T. G. Moore '29, R. H. Newell '29, C. H. Olmstead '29, John Parkinson '29, E. T. Putnam '30, E. W. Sexton '29, R. A. Stout '29, G. A. Tupper '29, Richard Warren '29, O. L. Winston '29, P. S. Wise '29, A. S. Woodworth '29 and W. S. Youngman...
...President Coolidge laid a cornerstone in Washington, for the new American Red Cross Building, dedicated to U. S. women in the War. Chief Justice Taft presided. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson attended. . . . President Coolidge journeyed to Gettysburg, Pa., to deliver a Memorial Day speech. In charge of the train was one Grant Eckert, son of the later Conductor John Eckert who had charge of the train which took President Lincoln to Gettysburg in 1863. In his speech, President Coolidge called Abraham Lincoln "one of the greatest men ever in the world." Then he dipped into figures and said that...
Gene Howe had criticized Lindbergh for not landing on a field crowded with eager spectators. Despite threatening and sneering telegrams the obscure editor wrote another ironic column: "I'll grant that he has the courage, but I also insist that he is more or less simpleminded, or he would not have permitted his head to grow to such large proportions. It may be treason for me to say so, but the truth is that Lindbergh has had more extraordinary luck than anyone in modern history...
...Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Mr. Fish who footballed at Harvard, is not a Negro. He is the third of a series of Hamilton Fishes who sprang from Nicholas Fish, a lieutenant-colonel in Washington's army. The first Hamilton Fish was Secre tary of State in Grant's Cabinet. Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish has yet to prove himself as sterling a statesman as his grandfather or as his father, who was speaker of the New York Assembly (1895-96) and a Congressman before his son (1909-11). But Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish...