Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later married Mrs. Leonard M. Thomas (pen name: "Michael Strange"). ?Lyric written by James John Walker, onetime Greenwich village boy, now Mayor of New York City...
Married. Helen Wainwright, 19, able swimmer, onetime (1922) national champion diver; to Leonard Holland, theatre organist; in Dallas...
...Photographic Department W. L. Storey, who is chairman, with P. H. Clark Jr., and I. T. Williams as subchaimen, chose C. W. Moore as subchairman with a committee of eight composed of: R. K. Leonard, S. D. Fuller, J. V. Nissen, J. E. Evans, E. H. Earle, W. M. Randol Jr., E. W. Fordyce and F. T. Burgess...
Samuel Untermyer, able Manhattan lawyer, now on a round-the-world cruise, stopped in Manila for two days, talked with Governor General Leonard Wood, found the Philippines "bristling with complications." Also, said Mr. Untermyer, "I found less interest among the natives than I expected on the question of independence, except among the politicians...
...therefore return the bill without my approval."-Calvin Coolidge. The bill had been passed by the Philippine legislature and repassed by a two-thirds majority over Governor General Leonard Wood's veto. It proposed to hold a plebiscite among the islanders on the question: "Do you desire the immediate, absolute and complete independence of the Philippine Islands?" Under the organic law of the territory, the President of the U. S. has final authority on all bills passed by the native legislature. Hence, there will be no plebiscite and independence in the Philippines is still a remote subject...