Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Coolidge sub-cabinet-William Joseph Donovan and Henry Herrick Bond-lately formed a law firm in Washington. They called the partnership Donovan & Bond. It made a hole in the Treasury-the post Mr. Bond had occupied as Assistant Secretary. Last week President Hoover very neatly filled that hole by the appointment of Walter Ewin Hope, Manhattan lawyer. Princeton men throughout the land felt happier because their college had been accorded greater representation in official Washington by this "drafting" of one of their distinguished members...
...organization, wrote President Hoover a rebellious letter in which he said: "In the name of God and for the sake of righteousness as well as the economic prosperity of Florida I plead with you to withdraw this nomination." He threatened dire reprisals unless the President appointed men chosen by Mr. Skipper...
...good friend and campaign supporter, ill for weeks following an attack of influenza (TIME, Oct. 14). Back from Ohio, President Hoover again visited the dying scholar, statesman, peace-lover, whose interest in waterways was recognized by Rooseveltian appointment to chairmanship of the Inland Waterways Commission 22 years ago. Mr. Burton died full of years (77) and honor...
When you take into consideration the fact that the team made this record under a coach who was serving his first year, then you begin to understand what the latent possibilities of the Peninsula state boys really are. The particular coach in question is a certain Mr. Charles Bachman of Notre Dame fame. Like so many others of his tribe he purports to teach Rockne football, but unlike a great many others of his tribe he really seems to do it. The report is that he has equipped his team with an offense of which the great Knute himself might...
There are in the assemblage numerous first editions and folios, among which a notable one is a first folio edition of Shakespeare, of which there is but one other copy in existence. This was bought by Mr. Widener for $20,000 not long after he graduated from Harvard, in 1907, and now has a value of at least $70,000. Although this is the price listed, it would be hard to procure one of the first folio editions even at that cost...