Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi-tion he took in vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill (TIME, March 7). But the honor of his presence, the potency of his office, turned suspicion into acclamation as hostility succumbed to hospitality. Should South Dakota love the President in November as it does in June, the state's electoral vote seems indeed assured...
...York City's welcome in her honor was runner-up to the recent Lindbergh carnival. But the vaudeville and cinema contracts in her honor were not as fat as admirers expected. Her lawyer, Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, finally allowed her to accept a contract which required that she perform in a glass tub on vaudeville stages. "The idea of an endurance swimmer showing the public anything in a one-stroke tub suggests a whale doing a marathon in an eye cup," remarked a Chicago Tribune writer...
...retreat last week toward Peking, driven from South China by the great "Nationalist" Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, June 13). It seemed not unlikely that "Dictator" Chang was sounding last week the first brave notes of his swan dirge. At any rate, the Occidental diplomats at Peking did not honor his "inauguration" by their presence, seemed totally unimpressed. The wire was strung, the bags piled up (TIME, April 11) to barricade the Occidental quarter at Shanghai against possible Chinese violence after that city was taken by the "Nationalist" armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, March 28). Last week...
...summa cum laude, was conferred on only six men. Prescott Niles Arnold, of Milton, Eugene Lewis Bleiweiss, of Cleveland Heights, O., Alston Hurd Chase, of Salem, Milton Irving Katz, of Brooklyn. N.Y., John Robert Richardson, of Dorchester, and Henry Franklin Williams, of Cambridge were the men who received this honor...
...Thames tomorrow. Fortunately, from this point of view their number is small, but since it follows quite naturally that the reward is sweet in proportion to the number which shares the same, we pause to commiserate but remain to applaud. You nine men of the crew, all honor...