Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week and nominated James Montgomery Beck for the U. S. House of Representatives. Mr. Beck used to be (1900-1903) Assistant U. S. Attorney General. He used to be (1921-1925) U. S. Solicitor General. He is an officer of the Legion d' Honneur, a Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgian). Since a Vare-machine nomination is tantamount to election, President Charles B. Hall of the Philadelphia City Council announced: "With Senator Vare in the Upper House and Mr. Beck in the Lower House, added prestige will be given not only to our district...
Like many Etonians, he is impervious to criticism. He is aloof, independent, sometimes satirical, often sarcastic, but more often kindly. His verse shows all these qualities; indeed, his poems form the epitome of his character. He has never been known to write a poem to order; the nearest approach he made to doing so was after the War, when the Armistice seemed to call for an heroic ode. which he penned and called Brittannia Victrix, and which is hardly characteristic of his works...
Significance. Censorship veiled conditions in Rumania to such an extent that prognostication seems impossible. However, it is known that disatisfaction in that country is such that all the opposition parties are only too glad to hang their hats on the Carplist peg in order to oust Prime Minister Bratiano and what they call his corrupt regime. The Carolist movement in Rumania may be seen, therefore, in the light of an anti-Bratiano rather than a pro-Carol move. If this be true, anything may happen, and not the least possible is the recall of the onetime Crown Prince...
...years the Government prepared for the event and, in order to overcome the passive opposition of the people, it was decided to hold the census on Friday, Moslem rest day, and to keep every man, woman & child at home...
...university from the start to abandon the idea of a great number of graduate students and to plan the entire work on the basis of quality rather than quantity. ... A company of picked graduate students of moderate number and high scholarly promise was what was necessary in order that Princeton should make a really distinguished contribution to the higher teaching and scholarship of our country...