Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortnightly Club was due, not to her favoritism, but to the fact that the members of this club had been the first courageous enough to invite her. ¶On the 21st birthday of John Coolidge, the President stayed away from the Executive Office in Rapid City in order to celebrate the occasion. No birthday presents were in evidence, so newsgatherers stated that the President had given his son a large check. Also it was said that John Coolidge, on becoming a major, received a property grant from his grandmother's will. In the afternoon the three Coolidges were photographed...
...House. Of onetime Governor Lowden he said: "There's a man who says he wants to be President. He does not state any principles or stand four-square." He added: "My grandfather put up the first $25,000 for Pullman to build his first sleep-ing-car in order that his daughter [Mrs. Lowden] could have $25,000,000 today...
President. The assembled representatives of member nations of the League of Nations elected by a majority of one vote Senor Alberto Guani of Chile, President of the eighth Assembly. Count Albert Dietrichstein Mensdorff-Pouilly of Austria was thus narrowly de- feated. Past Presidents in order of incumbency: Paul Hymans, Belgium, 1920; Herman Adriaan Van Karnebeek, the Netherlands, 1921; Augustine Edwards, Chile, 1922; Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza, Cuba, 1923; Giuseppe Motta, Switzerland, 1924; Senator Raoul Dandurand, Canada, 1925; Mont-chilo Nintchitch, Jugoslavia...
...criminal code written by him and lately enacted in his state. "Crime as a problem is mainly concerned with the hardened repeater ... an organized business comparing favorably with the methods employed by our best concerns. . . . The modern bandit shows no mercy whatsoever. . . . These Baumes laws have been passed in order to put real backbone into the work of the judiciary...
...hospital at St. Anthony, on the uppermost tip of Newfoundland, Sir William Allardyce, Governor of Newfoundland and Laborador, acting on instructions from his King, smote Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell on the right shoulder with a sword and bade "the Knight Errant of the North" arise a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George...