Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transportation of stage properties to New York was effected through the medium of privately engaged lorries in the service of the Club. Within four feet of its destination, the Mecca Temple, the van was stopped by members of the Stage Hands Union, and upon the protest of this latter group appealing to the regulations necessitating union labor, the properties were removed from...
...tendency to antagonize the true born Englishman and certainly there have been many Americans who have deliberately gone elsewhere in their search for an environment more genuinely native than that afforded by an institution than that afforded by an institution which harbors two hundred Rhodes Scholars. By allowing the latter the privilege of individual choice of a University, this evil will be greatly reduced and at the same time the recipient of the award will be able to find surroundings more suitable to his peculiar needs...
...latter part of the administrations of two-term Presidents, he thought, showed "very little in the way of constructive accomplishment" and has "often been clouded with grave disappointments." These facts, coupled with his own desire, Mr. Coolidge gave as his reasons for retirement...
Intimations of trouble came when the Senate Ladies Luncheon Club elected Mrs. Senator Moses of New Hampshire to succeed Mrs. Vice President Dawes as their chief, instead of Mr. Gann's wife who, as sister of the widower Vice President-Elect, had already begun to function as the latter's official hostess (TIME...
...Romney, the 18th Century English cabinet-maker's son who achieved the niceties of Cavendish Square and rivaled Sir Joshua Reynolds as London's favorite painter. Naturally, the Sun had heard of Artist Romney, and quite as naturally of hell's-bellsing Lawrence P. Fisher. The latter is president of Cadillac Motor Co. and next-to-youngest of the six Fisher Brothers who rose from their father's Ohio blacksmithy to dominance in General Motors Corp...