Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover nominated: Charles Calvin Moore of Idaho as Land Office Commissioner; Horace Paul Bestor of St. Louis as head of the Federal Farm Loan Board, succeeding Eugene Meyer Jr., resigned...
...Eugene Meyer Jr. was retiring as head of the Federal Farm Loan Board. A farewell dinner was in order. Mrs. Meyer ingeniously devised a system of four tables to circumvent the troublesome question of Precedence. She would head one table, Mr. Meyer another, Vice President Curtis a third, Mrs. Gann a fourth...
Among the guests invited were Speaker Longworth and his popular, influential wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, onetime "Princess Alice" of the White House. Great is Mrs. Longworth's political prestige, great her social power, independent her behavior. She sent Mrs. Meyer her regrets, making it clear that she declined to sit below Mrs. Gann. Not to be outdone, Mrs. Gann and the Vice President, likewise stayed at home that evening...
...Chicago took a hemolytic streptococcus (blood-dissolving bacilli) from a lesion in the finger of an infected nurse and injected the germs into a 25-year-old woman. She developed scarlet fever. The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week's Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found the specific hemolytic streptococcus in the mucous membranes of the infected pharynx,* and from it developed a specific immunizing antitoxin...
Unlimited class: Robinson defeated Meyer on judges' decision...