Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate. The scene shifted to the Senate chamber. After perfunctorily passing a number of minor bills, the Senate recessed to await the President's action on the bills before him. The Senators gathered on the Republican (east) side of the chamber. Extra chairs were brought in. The galleries filled early. The Senators' private gallery, converted into an executive gallery, contained in its first row Colonel Coolidge, Mrs. Goodhue, Miss Skinner, John Coolidge. Mr. and Mrs. Stearns joined them. The Dawes children (Mrs. Malcolm Ericson, and Dana and Virginia, the adopted son and daughter) sat in the second row. Beman, Rufus...
...vigor with which the Cambridge police force has been prosecuting minor offenders--such as students unable to pay for keeping their cars in a garage--would give the appearance of an alert and efficient protection. Registrar Goodwin, however, has exploded this theory...
...must be slack if a lawbreaker can commit a series of twenty-nine crimes over a period of eight years, and then receive a sentence of one year. This person apparently stands a far better chance in the course than Mr. Undergraduate '26, who gets fined on his first minor infraction...
Saturday afternoon in Jordan Hall, Miss Guiomar Novaes, pianiste. Her program includes Beethoven's Sonata, Opus 8la. Chopin's B-flat minor Sonata and pieces by Rameau, Albeniz and Debussy...
...change, although unexpected, nevertheless failed to elicit selling except to a minor extent in the bond market. It was generally taken to indicate the end of the period of very easy money which has prevailed in Manhattan since last summer; and also the long way that financial and industrial recovery has traveled since that time. Evidently the familiar "business cycle" has not become nonoperative through the plethora of funds. Evidence accumulates that large amounts of credit will be taken up by agricultural efforts this spring to plant large crops at high prevailing prices, and by considerable commercial expansion. Also...