Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon the centre of the rainsoaked grave of Flier Floyd Bennett in Arlington National Cemetery was laid a wreath of ferns and calla lilies sent by President Coolidge. Two days later President Coolidge went to the chamber of the House of Representatives and gazed, during a state funeral service, at the catafalque and bier of his dead friend and Flood Control spokesman, Representative Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois...
...issued two proclamations. One was by radio, proclaiming the opening of American Forest Week, designed to decrease forest fires. ". . . We must all gain such respect for the forest that its destruction through indifference or carelessness shall be unthinkable," he said. Proclaiming Child Health Day in print, he said: ". . . A grave responsibility . . . fundamental necessities . . . future progress and welfare of the nation...
Student Councils are already in grave danger of going out of fashion. If they are to become mere shadows of their original selves, functionless and valueless, they cannot expect long to continue in existence. Nowhere does general interest in a Student Council lag as much as at Harvard nowhere are the dangers of that Council's dying a natural death so great. If the Harvard Student Council is to continue to exist and to play an essential part in undergraduate life it must turn its attention with increasing energy and intelligence to those fields which still offer wide opportunities...
After having triumphantly survived several grave crises scattered throughout its distinguished lifetime Beck Hall has finally passed into the ruthless hands of cold blooded business men. Not to preserve its historic association, not to aid the University in providing convenient lodgings for its students, but merely to stretch as best they may their own pocket books, have the latest purchasers of Beck Hall sought its ownership. If financial expediency so dictates they may even compass its total demolition...
Secretary Hoover had ordered the U. S. Census Bureau to discontinue its custom of segregating Negro clerks from white clerks. Senator Stephens called this an "unfortunate action." Senator Stephens referred to "personal political advantage." He said it was a grave injustice to both races and that certain white men and women would have a Negro for their superior officer...