Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe, Wartime Commander of the British Grand Fleet, underwent in London an operation on his upper jaw bone...
Among the 400-odd gridiron guests: Tammany Chief John Francis Curry, Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin, Senatorial Host Walter J. Fahy, National City Bank President Gordon John Rentschler, the Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Maryland; Senator Grundy (very popular), but not Senator Brookhart...
...onetime president, most potent of Mexicans, stepped from the Bremen to Brooklyn last week, was welcomed by 50 Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's President-elect. An unexpected damper to the official welcome was the announced intention of one John A. Vails, District Attorney of Laredo, Tex., to arrest Señor Calles for the murder seven years ago of two Mexican officers whose bodies, handcuffed together, were found floating in the Rio Grande. Wires from the State Department hastily announced that ex-President Calles had a U. S. diplomatic...
...Balls. President John Heydler of the National League said that home-runs in his league dropped off 45% when umpires roughened the dead white, glossy balls with dirt. He suggested that if manufacturers left the leather covers unfinished instead of polishing them, pitchers would be able to handle the ball better, batters would not be able to see it so well...
...school owned and controlled by the Baptists of Alabama. . . . No teacher is employed in the institution who is not a professed Christian and with rare exception all of the teaching force belong to the Baptist faith. . . . The students take seriously the fact that Howard is a Christian college. . . ."-President John C. Dawson of Howard College in the college catalog. At Howard last week, up stood Horace Calvin Day, associate professor of biology, to demonstrate in a chapel talk to the students that perhaps the intellectual and the spiritual do not always embrace each other in the manner President Dawson suggests...