Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover, standing at the head of the Cabinet table and reading from notes, gave the Commissioners 301 words of advice and encouragement. The word "Prohibition" was not uttered...
Were the Governor-guests ranked around the conference table the way their States ranked in oil-production, the youngest executive would sit at the head. Gov. Dan Moody (lower left on front cover) of Texas is 36. His State recently has been exuding oil at the terrific rate of approximately 780,000 barrels...
...Plan. Late last week precise, efficient Sir Josiah Stamp, head of the British Delegates, busied himself with the actual mechanical details of writing out and rushing to the printers the final draft of the agreement, known to the delegates as Draft C. Beyond that there remained only the affixing of the delegates' signatures and its submission to and (presumably) ratification by the governments of England, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the U. S. and Germany. The final obstacle-the Belgian franc business-seemed to have disappeared when Germany solemnly pledged herself to settle the War currency question before Sept.1, when...
...decided to send a messenger to heaven. Looking about him, Ivan Skripnik chose young Gregory Romashevsky to act as this messenger. Romashevsky blanched but accepted, prepared to die. He lay down on the table in the mean wooden house that serves the Johnists for a church. By his head was laid an old butcher knife, carefully sharpened...
...Olga not only represents the feminine beauty of our race but the charm of the Brazilian woman. . . . Each petal unfolding over Olga's young crowned head is for us like the stars sparkling in our flag...