Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge era than any other member of the Cabinet. First came the inept Wilbur speechmaking in the 1924 campaign, necessitating his recall to Washington. Then there was a series of Navy disasters ? the Shenandoah, the S-51, the S-4 ? for which no Secretary could have been held directly ac countable, but during which Secretary Wilbur handled himself so clumsily that he became the butt of worse than blamed ridicule. Pressmen made sport of the Wil bur high-kicking, the Wilbur Sunday school class, the Wilbur bed-time stories. Repeatedly came disgusted demands for the Wilbur resignation...
Thus by a finely drawn and probably unique distinction the highest executive office in Czechoslovakia is held in trust for a sick...
Unexpected products held the spotlight. Instead of a storm about corn, fresh tomatoes caused a furore. Mexican production was described as a menace. Italian growers were paying their hired help 43¢ a day compared to labor cost of 25 to 35¢ an hour...
...understood that yesterday's developments were brought to their culmination only by the action of the Lampoon itself. The attitude of the University towards the Lampoon, it was learned, was one of indifferent quiescence as long as the Lampoon held to innocuous humor, but when the straw that broke the camel's back, in the form of Lampy's most recent indiscretions entered the situation, the college authorities reached the conclusion that, foreclosure of the mortgage was the only action compatible with Harvard dignity...
...contestants for the Lee Wade and Boylston prizes for elocution must register for the competition before Monday, February 25, according to an announcement given out yesterday. These contests are held annually in Sanders Theatre during the first week of April, and always attract an excellent group of speakers, over 54 students participating in last year's competition...