Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, hapless Jeremiah Bletch dropped the $5 gold piece, office Christmas gift, that he was telephoning Mrs. Bletch about, into the pay station box. Mrs. Bletch grieved...
After three months of preliminary debates in the Ames competition for third year Harvard Law School Clubs, only two of the four clubs which were left in the competition at the end of the second year survive. They are fire Scott Club and the Jeremiah Smith Club. W.C. Carter 3L. and R. K. Chase 3L represent the Scott Club, while J.W. Avirett 3L and W.D. Gallagher 3L. are of the Jeremiah Smith Club...
...visited Rome, Paris and London in 1923, persuaded those governments to reverse decisions of their own Reparations Commission which would have crushed Hungary financially; and substituted the League control of Hungarian finance whereby the country "came back" under the fiscal dictature of a U. S. League of Nations Commissioner, Jeremiah Smith Jr. of Boston (TIME, July...
...Jeremiah McAuley, son of an Irish counterfeiter, and a river thief and drunkard on his own initiative, received a pardon signed by Secretary of State [of New York] Chauncey M. Depew, after serving seven years of a fifteen-year sentence for highway robbery. Eight years later this McAuley founded a mission at No. 316 Water Street, Manhattan, where wharf life is drably vile. His slogan was "The Man No One Else Wants." Drunkards, drug addicts, broken down sports, panhandlers, sick street-creatures could get a bed, a wash, a meal. It was the first city rescue mission in New York...
...readers of your paper who would be interested in knowing what Michigan men think of Harvard's most gracious condescension in permitting Princeton, who has only beaten her by a grand total of 70 to 0 in the last two years, to remain on her schedule. Very truly yours, Jeremiah C. Waterman, Princeton...