Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apartment building at No. 51 Fifth Avenue, corner of 12th St. The suite (10 rooms, 3 baths) is on the top story; it is believed that Contractor William Kenny (who supplied the campaign private car) will occupy the rest of the floor. Other close neighbors will be Tammany-leader George W. Olvany and Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen, both of No. 43 Fifth Avenue. The new Tammany Hall, at 17th St. and Union Square will be only a few blocks away. Oliver St., however, is considerably to the south and east...
...Parliamentary gossip about Le Dauphin, last week, by the fact that M. Poincaré again let it be known, during the holidays, that he plans to resign as soon as he is satisfied that his Cabinet?in which he now holds no active portfolio?can carry on under another leader. After two and a half years of incessant and supremely successful work in stabilizing the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926 et seq.), the Prime Minister and former President of France is anxious for release from arduous and poorly paying public duties...
...University Club, greatly aided by its orstwhlle leader, George Owen '23, recently turned star in professional ranks, eked out a 4 to 3 win over Harvard. The Crimson conquered McGill by a 3 to 2 count in an overtime clash and later fell before a powerful Toronto aggregation by the same score. In a return clash, an overtime period failed to break the scoreless deadlock...
...there were nothing but Indians on Broadway. Europe has centuries of culture back of it, while America is just getting on her feet, musically. The only man I know of here who has done consistently, excellent work in composing is Mr. Deems Taylor, who certainly deserves his position as leader of American composers...
...steersman of All-Indian Congress, potent Pandit Motilal Nehru dwarfed, from a practical standpoint, even the Big-Little Mahatma. As leader of the Swarajist Party in the Legislative Assembly at Delhi, the Pandit is an intensely active and practicing politician. His official status with the British Raj is second only to his unofficial might as President of the Hindu Congress. Grave and deeply read in law, the Pandit is also a mob-kindling orator, and moreover a zealot who gave up his lucrative legal practice in 1920, when Pied-Piper Gandhi piped "Non-Co-operation...