Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the many features provided for the members of the Glee Club on their recent Spring tour of Eastern cities was a visit with President Hoover at the White House last Tuesday. The entire club in making a sightseeing tour of the Capital City stopped at the executive mansion where the members all shook hands with Mr. Hoover. They then formed the conventional group on the White House lawn and Washington photographers snapped the usual picture with Mr. Hoover and A. C. Chase '29 president, of the Glee Club in the center...
...charged with: 1) Using his ap pointive power to control the courts; 2) Attempting to bribe legislators with patronage promises; 3) Employing the militia to loot and pillage private property; 4) Carrying concealed weapons; 5) Deporting himself scandalously at a New Orleans "studio" party; 6) Demolishing the Executive Mansion and disposing of its furniture; 7) Putting a $20,000 ice machine into a penitentiary without public bids...
Below stairs in the dignified stone mansion of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, a group of Paris reporters completed, last week, their second month of fidgeting and fuming. The first month was the hardest. It climaxed in a duel between M. Georges Chapreau and M. le Marquis Henri de Sombrieul, both star reporters, who had rasped each other's nerves. However, since le Marquis fired into the ground, and M. Chapreau into the air-as Frenchmen will -the shots served happily to steady the nerves of all concerned. Last week the corps of reporters five was informed by the corps...
Rather cryptically and ominously the Prince added: "This is not the occasion to discuss the unemployment situation. . . . Should such discussion be invited here, I prophesy an all-night sitting in the Mansion House which would not suit everybody present...
...undetermined on the issue presented by Mr. Churchill's money bill: namely, should the Government pay in whole or in part the allowed claims of loyal Irish subjects of His Majesty who had suffered destruction of their property during the Sinn Fein insurrections (1916-20). Should a Loyalist whose mansion had been burned down by mobsmen get a whole new house, or just a cottage? Apparently Mr. Churchill felt that a cottage would be adequate, especially since the saving would help to balance his budget...