Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Held group memorial services for eleven deceased members of Congress...
...weekday last week the House dropped its legislative labors to hold its first group memorial service for the ten Representatives and one Senator who died within the Congressional year. Such services used to be held on Sundays and fine occasions for flowery oratory they were-only nobody came...
...going to play with the pails & shovels? The fact that there are two of each would suggest Masters George and Hubert Lascelles, sons of Princess Mary, only daughter of Queen Mary. On the other hand there was a school of British opinion which firmly held, last week, that when "Baby Betty," the only granddaughter of their Majesties, makes her soon-expected visit at Bognor, she will be allowed to play with one pail and one shovel?the other pail and shovel being held in reserve...
...test case the Berlin Labor Court held that any clause or agreement barring servants from Aufzüge or Fahrstüle is void, and branded all such prohibitions as "obsolete and anti-social." This ruling may be an opening wedge to compel landlords and employers to provide better living conditions for domestic servants. Even in modern Berlin apartment buildings, backstairs are unlighted, and despite the long German winter, maids' rooms are nearly always without heat...
Each became last week the theatre of a miniature civil war. Troops loyal to President Chiang battled with disaffected soldiery left over from the old regimes of the detested war lords who held sway over China like robber barons before the Nationalist conquest. To picture the situation in terms of U. S. geography, imagine President Chiang in New Orleans (Nanking) hearing that civil war has broken out on the North Atlantic seaboard (in Shantung), and also far inland on a tributary of the Mississippi (in Hunan). China's North Atlantic is the Yellow Sea, and her Mississippi...