Word: meyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace Roosevelt, daughter of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. of Porto Rico. Washington gossips again overemphasized the significance of that first dance. More than 200 of Washington's nicest boys and girls began rigadooning in the East Room promptly at 10 p. m. Piece de resistance of Orchestra Conductor Meyer Davis' repertoire was "Moonlight on the Santa Clara," which he composed himself and dedicated to Allan Hoover to signalize the occasion. Revelry ceased at 1 a. m. ¶ Another Hoover appointee to the Geneva disarmament conference was Norman H. Davis, onetime Undersecretary of State. His appointment fills the delegation...
...until afternoon was President Hoover ready to act. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board was with him at the time. Slowly, carefully, a little larger than usual, the President wrote his name at the bottom of H. J. R. 147, smilingly handed the pen over to Mr. Meyer as a souvenir. To the country at large the President declared...
...Ways & Means emerged the Moratorium resolution to make big black headlines (see col. 3). Less spectacular but no less important was the work of the House Banking & Currency Committee. First it framed a bill for $100,000,000 additional capital to the Federal Land Banks and then heard Eugene Meyer, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, on the merits of a $500,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. as requested by the President. The Appropriations Committee reported out its deficiency measure. In the Senate the Agriculture Committee approved a proposal by Montana's Wheeler, to turn over an undetermined amount...
...long night when he first appears in Oxford. Then on this foundation Greats--two years and a third, or seven terms of history and philosophy. Thucydides, Herodotus, Livy, and Tacitus, and most of all Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics." This is supplemented by Bury and Meyer in Greek history and by Descartes, Hume, Kant and Croce...
Honored, Eugene Meyer, Yale 1895, governor of the Federal Reserve Board; with the Montclair Yale Bowl, awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; at the nth annual party of the Montclair (N. J.) Yale Club in "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn."* New award: the Montclair Faculty Plate, to English Professor William Lyon Phelps. 66. The Montclair Scholastic Cup of 1931 goes to Rufus S. Day Jr., 19, Yale senior. Phi Beta Kappa, grandson of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice William R. Day, Secretary of State under President McKinley...