Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back to the embryonic stage of the CRIMSON poll in 1908 when it was conducted in the form of a registration of all men in the respective parties at the CRIMSON building it was pointed out that: "During the registration today an opportunity will be given for everybody to obtain a ticket for the parade. The ticket will entitle the holder to a crimson cap and gown and a torch to be carried by each member of the club." This was in the days when an election meant a frantic torchlight procession around the Square, burnings in effigy, and collegiate...
...desk is to be placed in the hall of the Union where it will be possible for members of the University to join the Republican organization as well as obtain information concerning absentee voting...
...Secretary for Student Employment approved of the plan, the upperclassmen were added to the group and a test rehearsal was held with assistant and Professor Edward Ballantine 07 of the Music Department acting as advisor. Besides the preliminary series of four Freshman concerts, plans are being made to obtain engagements for the "Freshman Players" at various gatherings in the University and meetings of societies and clubs in Boston...
...strove to counteract any such impression by welcoming U. S. correspondents to a charming little tea. Urbane Foreign Office officials pointed out at this function that the Coolidge-Kellogg note contains the following conciliatory passage: "The Government of the United States remains willing to use its best efforts to obtain a basis of further naval limitation . . . and is willing to take into consideration in any conference the special needs of France, Italy or any other naval power for the particular class of vessels deemed by them most suitable for their defense. ... It expects on the part of others, however, similar...
...agreements were not equally easy to obtain. Matchmaker Kreuger had to dicker. To win the French state monopoly, he bought $50,000,000 French government bonds. He loaned Greece $5,000,000 for the monopoly. Ecuador received $2,000,000 and a yearly payment. A similar dicker pleased Esthonia. And such a deal was responsible for the $36,000,000 Hungarian bonds for which U. S. and foreign investors began, last week, to make indirect payment...