Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wallace McCamant?the man who nominated him in 1920. Judge McCamant, who has the enmity of Senator Hiram Warren Johnson (TIME, Feb. 8, POLITICAL NOTES), allowed himself to be forced into saying that Theodore Roosevelt "was not a good American," and the Judiciary Committee of the Senate refused to recommend him for office...
...organizations, resolved that: "We representatives, . . . recognizing the fundamental spiritual unity which binds us as Jews, believing that the synagogue is the basic and essential unit in our Jewish life, and believing in the desirability of taking counsel together for the sacred purpose of preserving and fostering Judaism in America, recommend to the organizations represented at this meeting that a conference composed of national congregational and rabbinical organizations of America be formed for the purpose of enabling them to speak and act unitedly in furthering such religious interests as all these constituent national organizations share in common, it being clearly provided...
...walked into the White House office. They needed no introduction. One was Senator Charles L. McNary, the other Senator Robert N. Stanfield. They brought the President news which he was not glad to receive. They told him that the Judiciary Committee of the Senate could not be induced to recommend the confirmation of Judge Wallace McCamant of Oregon as Federal Circuit Judge-McCamant who nominated Coolidge in 1920, and who allowed himself to be forced into saying that Roosevelt "was not a good American" (TIME, Feb. 8, POLITICAL NOTES...
...have always gone into convulsions over such burlesquers as the carpenter scene in the Ziegfeld Follies several years ago. The Adagio Classique in this Bughouse Caebaret is much along the same lines. We recommend any show where one strong man misses his footing and slips down into his partner's trouser leg. That is our idea of something funny...
...Taylor doesn't like your "freak"and "stunt" expressions. Let me recommend to him a weekly for which I am an honorary subscriber: The Five Points (Pa.) Main Street Review. The present editor has preserved beyond reproach the style of his great-uncle, founder of the Review...