Word: regent
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Died. Frank Lester Greene, 60, senior U. S. Senator from Vermont since 1923. U. S. Representative from 1912 to 1923, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime (1917-23) regent of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington; after an operation for hernia; in St. Albans, Vt. He had been partially paralyzed since 1924, when he was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired in a Washington street fight between Prohibition agents and 'leggers...
...Budapest, Otto's birthday created only the mildest flurry. By order of the Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, no flags were displayed on government buildings, but even on the private homes of loyalists there was a dearth of bunting...
Although this hall has always been used for dancing at the annual Freshman Jubilee in the spring, there has never been any other dance held in this or in any of the other Freshman halls during the college year, according to Matthew Luce, Regent...
...President Hoover last week named Herman Murray Jacoby, wealthy German-born Manhattan bond broker, to represent him as a special ambassador next November when Ras Taffari. Regent of Ethiopia, becomes H. I. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. To Addis Ababa, remote Abyssinian capital, for the African coronation Mr. Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with...
Last fortnight Yellow Taxi Corp., New York (Regent 1000), largest, oldest (1921) in New York City, went to court to defend its 1,250 cabs. Yellow complained that General Motors Corp, had coerced railroad and steamship lines into awarding concessions to G. M.'s subsidiary, Terminal Cab Corp. Yellow obtained from Supreme Court Justice Richard P. Lydon a temporary injunction to bar Terminal Cab from operating a concession recently obtained (at Yellow's expense) from the Furness-Bermuda Line, Pier 95, North River. Last week Counsel Henry B. Hogan for General Motors denied all charges, affirmed that...