Word: order
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eugene Meyer Jr. was retiring as head of the Federal Farm Loan Board. A farewell dinner was in order. Mrs. Meyer ingeniously devised a system of four tables to circumvent the troublesome question of Precedence. She would head one table, Mr. Meyer another, Vice President Curtis a third, Mrs. Gann a fourth...
Marked by observers as a first fruit of Mr. Shouse's appearance in Washington, was the "discovery" last week by the Treasury Department of an order, signed in 1920 by Assistant Secretary Shouse, requiring customs inspection of all baggage of U. S. officials claiming "free entry." Dry congressmen with wet baggage have revived interest in this port courtesy. The Treasury indicated that the oldtime Shouse order would probably be taken no more seriously than before its rediscovery...
...German delegation, bearing copies of the Young Plan. Three hours later Dr. Schacht reached Paris, and for two hours was closeted with Mr. Young. Both emerged in evident good humor. Quickly a special meeting of the Second Dawes Committee was called by Chairman Young, who rapped briskly for order and then said...
...cabled that the cardinal principle of the Hoover plan had been rejected. Apparently this "news" was taken very ill at the White House. Next day the State Department pointed out that the Litvinov motion had not been voted down but merely tabled on a point of order. The distinction is doubtless important, but the fact remains that no delegate except Red Russia's Litvinov proposed anything remotely approaching an endorsement of the cardinal Hoover point...
...CRIMSON Cups were instituted by the Senior Editors of the Class of 1926. They presented the paper a sum upon which successive Senior boards have drawn in order to present a silver trophy to the most excellent schoolboy newspaper. The general appearance of the sheet, the quality of the writing, and the constructiveness of the editorials are the leading factors in the competition...