Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continue for another year as Grand Sachem. Under its rules a Grand Sachem serves one year, cannot be reelected. Mr. Voorhis was chosen Grand Sachem in 1912 when he was 83. He has served ever since as honorary head of Tammany Hall through the inability of the Sachems to muster a majority vote in favor of someone else. Each passing year they have expected Time to settle their Grand Sachembarrassment by making a vacancy, but Mr. Voorhis, now nearly 102 and in good health, has continued to outsmart them...
...half the delegates considered it hypocritical to call on a President so hostile to their principle of Prohibition repeal. Therefore Mrs. Sabin and Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, the organization's secretary, could muster only 534 Vets for the march to the White House. Mrs. Nicoll carried a W. 0. F. N. P. R. resolution petitioning the President and Congress to resubmit the 18th Amendment to the States. This she handed to the President...
Tobacco when he looked at the pile of proxies to be voted in his favor at the stockholders' meeting last week. No similar pleasure accrued to Stockholder Rich ard Reid Rogers who had attempted to muster a bloc in protest of President Hill's $2,000,000 bonus (TIME, March 23). When balloting time came Dissenter Rog ers saw his candidate for the directorate receive a paltry 11,980 votes out of 2,627,953. Angry, he spoke of carrying on his uphill anti-Hill fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume...
Acquiring a technique in one branch of study is in great measure a matter of practice and requires both time and concentration, two requisites which the college student is hard put to it to muster. When the undergraduate comes to college he has slight maturity and little knowledge of the direction of his tastes and talents. To demand professional grasp at this itme necessitates the immediate decision as to his field and forces him to penetrate into it to the exclusion of almost everything else...
...there is not known. One low guess was $30,000,000. But then $100,000,000 has also been mentioned. It is certain that the big Nitrate Cartel will fight hard to prevent Allied from extracting profits from its Hopewell investment; it is certain that in Hopewell Allied will muster every corporate war-machine which it has assembled behind the dark cloud...