Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House had its back up, too. The Coolidge compromise proposals, carried by Republican Leader Tilson to the House Flood Control Committee, insisted upon local contributions of sites for levees and floodways. With equal insistence, the Committee-led by Reid of Illinois, Whittington of Mississippi, Driver of Arkansas, Wilson of Louisiana-would hear of no local contributions except, perhaps, sites for the bases of levees on the main stream of the Mississippi...
...progressive" nine times in ten paragraphs, and made the customary references to Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. A woman, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, said that women "crave" a President with an understanding, a human heart. She quoted Kipling's Recessional and wound up: "The country needs a leader and we offer, with entire confidence and affection, Governor Alfred E. Smith, God bless...
Professor Babbitt is indeed more than a mere critic, more than a professor of French literature. If society in its broadest sense had the same nomenclature as political parties, he might well be called the leader of the opposition. Not that Professor Babbitt is in any sense like the much caricatured radical, bomb in hand, "agin' society": rather the opposition--, as the himself is fond of putting it--, is "the opposition of the Real to the welter of the Actual...
...Sawbridge is the chaplain of the society and therefore well qualified to discuss its aims and accomplishments The meeting will also be addressed by J. P. Hubbard '26, a leader of the Boston group of "Toc H" The subject of the talks will be. The Arms and Idea of the Organization and the meeting will be open to the University...
...York City was elected Vice-President. William Raymond Driver '29 of Milton was elected Secretary; Lawrence Edward Mallinckrodt '30 of St. Louis was elected Treasurer. For the other offices, William Frost Mann '30, of Brookline was chosen Librarian; Bernard Davis Hanighen '30 of New York City leader of the Mandolin Club; Robert Murray Whittemore '31 of East Orange, N. J., leader of the Banjo Club; and Charles Mathews Underhill '31 of Scarsdale, N. Y., leader of the Vocal Club. The chairman of the specialty Division will be appointed later...