Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 17 issue of TIME you give a list of people who have received honorary degrees at various institutions of learning at Commencement time this year. Among them is the name of Lou Henry Hoover who received a degree from Swarthmore. You have failed to state that the same institution, at the same time, conferred a degree on Marion Edwards Park! President of Bryn Mawr. I infer that it is not accounted "lese majeste" to mention the President of Bryn Mawr College in the same class with the wife of the President of the United States...
...Nebraska's Senator Norris and Democratic-Leader Robinson the bloc constituted a powerful combination of votes virtually the same as had for so long tormented President Hoover with the Export Debenture Plan in the Farm Bill. It took its name from the support it gave last week to a Borah resolution to instruct the Finance Committee to confine tariff revision to the farm schedule. Last week it held informal meetings, laid plans, apportioned among its membership the special study of different schedules for technical contests on the Senate bloc, prepared to scatter through the land to stump against...
Senator Glass recalled that Prohibition had not been named by name in either the Hoover or the Wickersham speeches inaugurating the Commission's work, and added: "These omissions could not have been merely coincident. Obviously they must have been agreed...
Details of the consolidation have not been announced, except that William Henry Crocker will undoubtedly head the united banks. American Trust Co. has long been associated with the name of John Drum, but as Banker Drum's resignation as American Trust Co. president shortly preceded the merger, it did not appear that the new institution would be at all a Drum enterprise. To most Californians, Banker Crocker is perhaps more a symbol than an individual-a symbol of wealth, position, dignity, correctness. He is the only living son of Charles Crocker, who was one of the founders of Southern...
Schmeling. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling would be a long name to in scribe on the Tunney-Muldoon trophy which indicates the championship of the world. But Herr Schmeling, who is as soft-spoken as Tunney and as agreeable as Carpentier, would not object to his three middle names being left out. He it was about whom the long, loud, prefight ballyhoo was mostly centred last week, for he it is who is dempseyesque...