Word: presentability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Were it not for the Federal Reserve Law and the Prohibition Amendment, it would be difficult to vision the seriousness of what might be hap- pening at the present time...
...adjourn. Congressman Tilson truly declared that the House had finished its program. When Senator Jones's turn came to speak for the Senate, he repeated the historic phrase: "Mr. President, the Senate has completed its work-" Then he qualified: "-as far as possible." It was all the others present on this solemn occasion could do to keep from outright laughter. Senator Jones, according to Congressman Tilson, wore his "best poker face." President Hoover rounded out the ritual by saying: "I thank you. I have no further communication to make to the Congress at this time." The comedy...
...public character he disliked most. Senator Norris flayed Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Senator Glass flayed Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of Manhattan's National City Bank. Senator Harrison flayed the Republican President. Senate attendance petered out until at the final meeting only eleven members were present. Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin rose primed to make a speech. To silence him Ohio's Senator Fess had the roll called. Newsmen in the gallery guffawed at the spectacle. Senator Heflin, sensitive to laughter, blurted a demand that the galleries be cleared. As a clerk slowly droned...
Until the present no distinction other than academic has been made between Engineering and College undergraduates. All the traditions of Harvard rise in protest against such a division, a separation on the basis of vocation rather than of natural affinities. At present, as far as can be learned, the majority of Engineering School students room with men in the College. It is imperative that these be not still further excluded from this valuable series of contacts outside the scientific laboratory merely by their choice of profession...
...students in the Schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning have been invited to see an exhibition of the film. "The Washington Plan--Our National Capital; Past, Present, and Future," exhibited at Huntington Hall on Monday, December 9, at 4.30 o'clock...