Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Grant...
...plan for assigning scholarships put into effect at the Theological School gives every promise of success for the future, said Dean Willard I Sperry in his recent report on the School. It is designed, said Dean Sperry, to make the scholarship grant & recognition of academic excellence. To accomplish this and "to escape from the suspicion of giving Indiscriminate financial aid to students, so often and so justly charged against theological seminaries, this School has greatly reduced its number of announced school airships, and with the cooperation of parishes in the vicinity has instituted a Compensated Church Work plan, by which...
...captured four British vessels. Saratoga II, which mounted 26 guns and displaced 734 tons,† was flagship in the battle of Lake Champlain. From her Commodore MacDonough sent this despatch to Secretary of the Navy Madison: "Sir, the Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory." Saratoga III, a sloop of 22 guns and 1,025 tons, was launched in 1842, suppressed slave-trade off the African coast, went to Japan with Commodore Perry in 1853, was gunnery ship at Annapolis, was sold...
...Grant being President and Hamilton Fish being Secretary of State, Eddie Savoy, Negro, became a Government page. For half a century, he has been chief usher at the State Department, bowing in, bowing out diplomats. Last week, came a tragedy. He reached 70. He must retire...
...honor, can himself recognize a peerage claim by issuing a writ of summons to the claimant, but he never does so now. If he did, the House could not refuse the peer a seat; but, could?and doubtless would, if it disproved the King's action?refuse to grant him the precedence to which the date of his dignity entitled...