Word: member
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
...Washington he rules a great domain. To begin with he is the President's official landlord, charged with the maintenance of the White House. He is a potent member of these Commissions: Arlington Bridge, National Capital Park & Planning, Public Buildings, District of Columbia Zoning. His predecessor, Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, retired in 1926 to go and be Cincinnati's $25,000-per-year city manager, a post he still fills to the greater glory of Cincinnati and himself...
Acidulous, hard-bitten Philip Snowden, the only member of the Labor Party who has ever been Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer, stumped into a London court, last week, on his heavy, rubber-tipped crutches...
Five By-Elections. If the attention of the Speaker of the House of Commons is called to the fact that a Right Honorable Member is absent by reason of Death, he will issue a writ for the holding of a by-election to fill the vacant seat. Last week five such by-elections were held, although the five M.P.'s elected will hold their seats for less than two months, namely until May 10, when Parliament will be dissolved for a General Election. Therefore when two more M. P.'s suddenly died, the party chieftains got together, last...
Some years back, when George Leon Loft, son of George W. Loft, famed "penny-a-pound-profit" candyman, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he appeared on the trading floor in a smart new spring suit. Knowing his reputation for being ready to buy or sell anything, friends of Mr. Loft surrounded him and began to auction off the suit. When the price reached $100, George said "sold." Into a telephone booth he stepped, removed the suit, tossed it out to the purchaser, remained in seclusion until another suit was brought from his home...