Word: magna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salant, who has maintained a high scholastic record while in college, being in group one every year, is to receive his A.B. degree, Magna Cum Laude, With Highest Honors, this June. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa...
...Constitution Hall for their annual convention and received a stern admonition from President Roosevelt not to "idly enjoy the vicarious fortitudes of ancestors long laid to rest" than they got down to the business of electioneering for officers. Favorite candidate to succeed short, full-bosomed Mrs. Russell William Magna as President-General was her Smith College classmate, tall, handsome Mrs. William A. Becker of New Jersey. In a rash moment Mrs. Becker once endorsed The Red Network, a list of such "radicals" as Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Frances Perkins, Donald Richberg. That endorsement, although later retracted, was enough to make...
First off, the candidates for President-General tested their strength by rival teas. Mrs. Becker, with Mrs. Magna to help her, served ice cream, cake and punch at the Mayflower Hotel, drew 3,000 Daughters and friends. At the Willard, Mrs. Gillentine, serving only lemonade, drew a scant 2,000 but outdid her rival with a string of celebrities including Speaker of the House Joseph Wellington Byrns and his wife...
...third day Gillentine supporters brought delegates to their feet in a rising vote for a big Army & Navy. On the fourth day the Daughters trooped excitedly to the polls, cast their ballots for President-General. The winner: Mrs. Becker, 1,436-to-619. Delighted Mrs. Magna embraced her classmate, kissed her for cameramen...
This onslaught left the House of Lords gaping and gasping. "I had nothing to do with drafting the obnoxious clause," bleated the Master of the Rolls, Baron Hanworth of Hanworth, onetime High Steward of Stratford-on-Avon and President of the Magna Charta Society...