Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Court gossips easily explained. They recalled that a conversation substantially as follows took place when Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford sat down to tea with Their Majesties in the country home of Lady Astor (TIME, April...
...Hoover went out and caught the cat, took it indoors. After breakfast, she accompanied her husband to a polling place, with their sons and daughter-in-law. They returned to a house full of people, sandwiches, chrysanthemums, telegraph tickers and commotion, to wait and hear how many millions of citizens were voting the way the Hoovers had voted. If Mrs. Hoover thought about the black cat during the day, there was another "omen," too. It was not only Mrs. Smith's birthday, but Herbert Hoover...
John J. Raskob, cheerful, used to vicissitudes, perhaps something of an opportunist, said: "... we ... shall take our place in the ranks of the majority of American citizens whose desire is the future welfare of our country." He was not to return to General Motors. Perhaps, said rumor, he would head a bigger & better motors combine, with du Ponts in it. Perhaps he would retire to his bayside estate among his children, farms, sailboats...
...class of Dwight L. Moody, uneducated, forceful evangelist. Since that time Dr. Mott has had an unbroken connection with the Y. M. C. A. More than any other individual he is credited with bringing the Y. M. C. A. to its present $200,000,000 status, and to a place in world esteem which makes it, unlike many another religious or semi-religious body, internationally and provincially welcome. Abundantly energetic, Dr. Mott is that type of man who would call that day grand on which he was called dynamic. His workday begins 10 minutes before he takes a commuters...
With regret operagoers heard last week that Arthur Bodanzky, conductor of German Opera at the Metropolitan since 1915, will resign at the end of the season. Conductor Bodanzky wants his time for the Friends of Music Society, for festivals abroad. His place at the Metropolitan will be taken by Joseph Rosenstock, now at the State Opera in Wiesbaden...