Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Reed Smoot of Nevada; on the ground of men tal cruelty; in Long Beach. Elected. Myron Charles Taylor, Manhattan capitalist (banks, railroads, insurance), finance committee chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.; to be a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, succeeding the late Manhattan capitalist Ogden Mills. Reelected. John Jacob Raskob of Wilmington, Del., chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as a member of the finance committee of General Motors Corp.* Donaldson Brown of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., was appointed to succeed Mr. Raskob as finance committee chairman. Died. Marjorie Cassidy Baer, 29, of Manhattan, wife of Arthur...
...Painter Carlo Perugini of Italy. Aged 10, Kate Dickens taught her father a polka to dance with her at the birthday party of her brother Charles Dickens Jr. Author Dickens, many years after, specially insisted that the polka lessons ("my fondest memories") be included in his biography by John Forster...
...ruling was occasioned by a dispute over the right of women members of the church to address the convention, to cast votes. Dr. John William Porter, editor of the American Baptist, stormily opposed gallant Dr. Truett. "We go right against the Scriptures!" he warned his undisputed brethren. "We break a precedent of 2,000 years!" Dr. Truett silenced his brother by quoting the Southern Baptist constitution...
...late Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor (1891-1911) of N. Y. U. There, august in bronze and marble, stand the busts of 49 famed Americans, including Robert Fulton, Horace Mann, Maria Mitchell, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses Simpson Grant, George Washington, Mark Hopkins, Gilbert Charles Stuart. There, too, shall stand John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Joseph Story, Elias Howe, whenever their admirers get around to having busts executed...
...Liberal Club, a recognized student activity, intended to hold a forum on the Mooney-Billings case in California,* received University permission to hold it in Alumni Hall. Then Pittsburgh's Chancellor John G. Bowman decided and declared that the Club was using the University's name to propagandize. He revoked the permission. Sociologist Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College, who was to have spoken in the hall, agreed to speak anyway, anywhere. The Liberal Club found a vacant lot for its meeting. For holding the meeting at all, the club was abolished...