Word: mc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Sir John Lavery, famed portraitist, reported a successful visit to the U.S. where with businesslike speed and punctuality he had done 15 millionaires. He also reported that prohibition was practically unknown among the rich. Only four abstainers had he met. One was Vance C. Mc-Cormick, onetime (1916) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...President not at home, and told reporters that the fight for the Republican nomination in 1928 would be between Messrs. Hoover and Dawes; Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who called by invitation to discuss the funding of the Italian Debt (see CABINET) ; Commander John R. Mc-Quigg of the American Legion to tell the President what legislation the Legion desires; Miss Glenna Collett, woman golf champion, to pay her respects...
...dulled the edge of her fiery nerves. She lost, 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. Miss Wills, champion of the U. S,. was left to face Miss McKane, Champion of Britain. Flanked with an enormous fagot of roses, the championship cup glittered on a table beside the court. Miss Mc-Kane and Miss Wills issued from the clubhouse, faced photographers, began to rally. The gallery which filled the stucco stadium was amazed to see a sort of, could it be, well nervousness in the champion's play. No, merely caution. But as the first set progressed they began...
...blue waistcoat. There too was Anna Pavlowa by Malvina Hoffman; almost too slinky, too shiny-eyed a lady for that decorous dusk; Schattenstein's picture of Miss Cathleen Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry C. Cushing III), oval face, narrow eyes, pursed sleepy mouth; Halmi's portrait of Miss Constance Mc-Cann, a slim girl with red hair; Alfred Munnings' restrained, academical paintings of Mrs. George F. Baker Jr., Mr. Sidney Fish. There was an early Sargent; an early Augustus John...
...Elected to committees in accordance with the desires of the party caucuses: for the Republicans, Borah, Chairman of Foreign Relations; Mc-Lean and Edge, Foreign Relations; Phipps, Chairman of Education and Labor; Hiram Johnson, Chairman of Immigration; Willis, Chairman of Territories; Cummins, Chairman of Judiciary; Butler, Judiciary, Naval Affairs, Patents; Means, Claims, Immigration, Judiciary, Mines; Metcalf. Education and Labor, Library, Naval Affairs, Patents. For the Democrats: George, Banking and Currency; Ashurst, Irrigation and Reclamation. ¶ Discussed the administration bill for spending $10,000,000 a year for five years on adequate Housing for Government offices in the Capital; given...