Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House last week went Dr. Wu Chao-chu to present to President Hoover his letter of credence as Chinese Minister (Nationalist Government). Dr. Wu expressed his pleasure at finding as President "a statesman who has intimate personal knowledge of China through long residence in the country and close contact with the people." The new Minister's father, Dr. Wu Ting-fang, represented China in Washington before the 1912 revolution...
...South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi which drew presidential condemnation and the threat that unless they cleaned up their political dung-heaps, their present leaders would become party outcasts. Said Mr. Hoover: "Such conditions are intolerable . . . repugnant . . . unjust . . . and must be ended...
Last week the Department of Labor prepared to urge the deportation of Baritone Danise on the ground of moral turpitude.* Baritone Danise was living in Manhattan with the present Signora Danise and their two bambinos. Prosperous, still under contract with the Metropolitan, he said: "I am grateful for the opportunities which America has given me. It would break my heart to leave...
...play, but one which by many standards quite over-towers any other on view at present in New York is "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekov, consummately produced by Eva Le Gallienne's earnest little band of repertory players in the rickety old Civic Repertory Theatre on Fourteenth Street. Nanimova heads the cast of the play which depicts the slow defeat of a noble Russian family ironically treasuring its unproductive cherry orchard, only to finally see it chopped down by a newly rich peasant who buys the estate...
...pass unnoticed the comment on its Spring production, both editorial and otherwise, favorable and unfavorable, which has recently appeared in the columns of the CRIMSON. The Dramatic Club considers this comment as constructive criticism and thanks its critics for crystallizing sentiment on the policies of the Club, past and present...