Word: lamont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verbal rather than physical. President Obregon praised U. S. President Coolidge for backing the arms sale. General de la Huerta protested against the decision and as a counter-move issued a decree claiming the oil taxes in the name of the Revolution and under the provisions of the Huerta-Lamont agreement. Physical fighting was confined to unimportant engagements, the largest of which resulted in the defeat of the Revolutionary General, Romula Figueroa, and the loss...
Meanwhile the artistic laity, the pillars of Art, rush to attend the exhibition. Those who saw the "varnishing" of Bellows' Christ include Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Conde Nast, Frank Munsey, Paul D. Cravath, Thomas W. Lamont, Herbert B. Swope, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. John H. Hammond, Mrs. August Belmont...
...prize essay contest will be conducted throughout the country this winter by the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, according to an announcement made by Corliss Lamont '24, chairman of that organization's University and College Students Committee...
...death of Henry Villard, Oswald Garrison Villard, his son, inherited the paper, In 1917 the younger Villard sold The Post to Thomas W. Lamont. Mr. Lament was understood to have spent much money on The Post, and it was common talk that he "dropped a million or two" in it. Early in 1922 he sold the paper to a syndicate of 34 men headed by Edwin T. Gay and including Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. Willard Straight, Clarence M. Woolley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marshall Field, Charles C. Burlingham, Cleveland H. Dodge, August Heckscher, Finley J. Shepard, George W. Wichersham, Paul...
Without condemning Mr. Wesson's system of grouping, there is room for criticism on the ground that he has given undue attention to the importance of social divisions just as Mr. Lamont may perhaps have over-stressed the importance of the school background. Without a doubt both these phenomena are of the greatest importance, but after all they are merely different symptoms of the same general situation. The possibility of dividing up Harvard into small social groups and of discovering the precise school affiliations of each group is infinite...