Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judges decided on the merit of the twelve after short speeches and briefs on the Supreme Court were submitted. To separate those who will lead the debate from the alternates a third tryout will be held in Lowell House tonight at 7:30 o'clock in which five minute talks and the presentation of new arguments will be required...
Handsome Mrs. Harriman, long one of Washington's favorite social warhorses, has done much in her 66 vivid years to merit this promotion. In 1913 Woodrow Wilson named her the only woman member of the Federal Industrial Relations Commission. The following year her husband, Manhattan Banker J. Borden Harriman, died. She settled down to a career in Washington. During the War she became chairman of the Committee on Women in Industry of the Council of National Defense. Then followed twelve long years of Republican regime...
Because of his unwillingness to publicize himself in any manner whatsoever, Mr. Laufman is not nearly so well-known as his work would merit. Unassuming and modest to the Nth degree, he did not even wish to submit a painting to the National Academy show, and did so only at the insistence of Milch Galleries which handles his work...
...bases of the merit of the briefs Rowe, assisted by three others, will attempt to thin the ranks to 12 speakers...
...praise on Soprano Pauly last week did not forget Conductor Rodzinski whose eloquent musicianship made Elektra one of the great triumphs of the season. An other honor came to Rodzinski two days later when Ambassador Jerzy Potocki pinned on him the Polonia Restituta, Poland's highest order of merit...