Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ohio, mother of Harding, Taft, McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, Garfield, Hayes, Grant, is the sponsor of two new booms for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1924. Senators Frank B. Willis and Simeon D. Fess are the objects of attention. Both have been Representatives, both are Senators, both were professors of history...
That Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, discoverer of? insulin,* will receive the next award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine seems logical from a survey of the scientific achievements of the past year. It has been suggested from several sources, and from the Edinburgh International Congress of Physiology comes the story that Dr. Banting will be recommended to the Swedish Academy of Medicine, which acts as the jury for this prize on behalf of the Nobel Foundation, custodians of the fund established in 1896 by the will of Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite. The average value...
...Woman on the Jury. When friends are gathered together in the name of courtroom melodrama one is bound to grant certain of the author's requests. One cannot protest that he has met the District Attorney so many times "before that he really would prefer a change; likewise the counsel for the defense; and the Irish detective. But the woman in the jury box is a newcomer, and for her sake it was that this program of events was scheduled...
...House of Commons voted by 150 to 124 to reject a proposal to grant full membership and all degrees to women at Cambridge University...
Petroleum companies are struggling with the same problem of overproduction which is harassing the wheat farmers, but with decidedly more effective methods. Instead of urging Congress to set minimum prices, purchase and store surplus stocks or grant other favors, the oil men are rearranging their plans in accordance with economic principles. Far from seeking Government aid, they will be satisfied if federal investigations and red tape are not added to their other current difficulties...