Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was another Mr. Hoover present -Mr. Ike Hoover, White House majordomo this many a year. Mr. President conferred with Mr. Major Domo. At length he said, "Well, go ahead then." There was a general winking and cocking of the eyes of the press. The ears got ready again, too. Mr. President noticed them and said: "I don't believe in that. I'm not going to talk any more...
...major event of Turkey's birthday was the broadcasting of a speech by Mustafa Kemal Pasha to every Turkish city and town and to hundreds of villages. Attempts at a similar broadcast last year failed miserably. The transmitter broke down but a few hours after "The Victorious" one had launched into the preface of his famed and unprecedented Seven-Day Speech (TIME...
Since the establishment of the German Republic, major labor disputes have been settled summarily, expediently by arbitration courts. But last week such a court was insolently flouted, its decision scorned...
...Married. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott 3d of Santa Catalina Island, Calif., grandson of the late Ironmaster Jordan Lawrence Mott; and Mrs. Frances Hewett Bowne (Frances Gibson), onetime operetta singer (The Chocolate Soldier); in Merced, Calif. In 1912 Major Mott eloped from New York with Mrs. Bowne. He left his wife, two children; she left Manufacturer Bowne. They shipped as purser & stewardess aboard a British freighter. In Japan Major Mott received the Order of the Rising Sun, edited a temperance monthly, wrote stories. Eight years ago Mr. Bowne divorced his wife. Last year the first Mrs. Mott consented to a divorce...
Married. Princess Zenaida Mihailovna Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant; and John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams, son of Major General Sir John Hanbury-Williams of London; in Washington, D. C. President & Mrs. Coolidge attended the wedding...