Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to this question may be found in the placing of some of the more important undergraduate positions on a remunerative basis. The major sport managerships, the presidency of the CRIMSON, and the presidency of the Phillips Brooks House, which are generally considered among the foremost student positions, are in fact real jobs, as stringent proportionally in their demands on time and energy of men whose resources are already taxed as an executive place in a corporation. The counter attractions to the part of student leaders that are now making themselves felt will be doubly powerful in a decade. Undergraduates...
...spite of the unpleasant and sordid details which may creep into view during the current struggle for the leadership of the nation, the avowed determinations of the Moguls of each of the major parties to keep a firm hand and a vigilant eye upon their respective war chests is somewhat of a compensation...
John Coolidge answered police questions, then went to his work as clerk at the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. When news of the accident reached Washington, D. C., President Coolidge despatched his personal physician, Major James F. Coupal, to New Haven to attend the Venos. Also to New Haven went Col. Edward W. Starling of the Secret Service to watch over John Coolidge. Only a week before, for the first time in three years, John Coolidge had been allowed to go about without a Secret Service...
...years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts of the world, sometimes by direction of a President of the United States." Also: "He has attended at different times the services of almost every one of the major religious sects...
...Between the two major parties: Laborite and Conservative. The Liberals held just such a balance in 1924 and used their leverage to assist into office the first and only British Labor Cabinet, namely that of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald...