Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Louis Warren Hill, 57, chairman of Great Northern Railway. Son of famed Great Northern Founder James Jerome ("Empire Builder") Hill, Louis Hill began working for Great Northern in 1893, became president in 1907, chairman in 1912. Said he: "My father advised me to retire from active participation in railway...
Stimson's Stag. Spacious Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson, was the last place where Prime Minister clasped hands with President. Two hours previously they had formally farewelled at the White House, but Mr. Hoover slipped over to his Secretary's stag dinner. No socialites were present...
Return. As he left Washington in the private car of President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., the tall and visibly tired Scot said to Statesman Stimson: "I wish I could stay longer." Five minutes at Baltimore were spent acknowledging cheers, receiving two engrossed scrolls which conferred honorary...
The burning of the magnificent Renaissance library of the University of Louvain in August 1914 was a classic "German atrocity" barely eclipsed by the shooting of Nurse Edith Cavell. Classic too is the furious quarrel which has raged for more than a year about what inscription shall stand over the...
As the library neared completion potent U. S. pacifist groups, spokesmanned by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, finally persuaded Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of Louvain University, that the Warren-Mercier inscription was "likely to breed hatred." Soon rector and architect openly quarrelled. Dramatically Monsignor Ladeuze brandished a cablegram beneath...