Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition in the display cases of the Treasure Room, where they will remain for several weeks. Two small notebooks in which Conrad kept a diary of his trip up the Congo River into the center of Africa in 1890, his first manuscript of the early chapters of "Lord Jim", and a silver match box, which he carried a great part of his life, complete the display. A small pamphlet containing notes on the diaries by Richard Curle, close friend and secretary to Conrad, is also available in the Treasure Room...
...over the matter. Yet the protests suggest an analogy to a retort that President Tyler once occasioned after the death of President Harrison had raised him to the office. He was about to purchase a used carriage when, seriously or no, he turned to his negro servant and asked, "Jim, do you think it's all right for a President to buy a second hand carriage?" The answer was, "Well boss, you'se a second hand President...
...White House and presented their plan. They were W. W. Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvania; W. N. Doak, official representative of the Railroad Trainmen; D. B. Robertson, President of the Firemen and Enginemen; B. M. Jewell, President of the Railway Employes Department, A. F. of L. Later Senator Jim Watson, of Indiana, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, dined at the White House. Then he introduced into the Senate a bill embodying the scheme...
...Christmas night, December 25, is to take the form of moving pictures, it was announced yesterday by Mr. Walter I. Tibbetts, Graduate Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Three reels will be flashed on the screen, including films of Dickens' famous Christmas characters entitled, "Old Scrooge" and "Sunny Jim's Christmas...
...summoning an impeachment session, even that project was damped. By a legal anomaly, such a session would not have power to appropriate money for its own expenses. Speaker Lee Satterwhite announced that he has promises of private citizens to contribute $300,000 for the expenses of the session, and Jim Ferguson turned on him with the cry of "Slush fund!" In addition it was realized that, even if the state House of Representatives impeached the Governess, Jim Ferguson has probably sufficient strength in the Senate to prevent her being removed from office. Then two new Road Commissioners were appointed...