Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause of the war. ..." "Our victory was essentially a victory: of the spirit. . . ." Such were a few of the many words that' fell upon the ears of 4,000 tottering Confederate veterans, their wives and progeny gathered last week in Charlotte, N. C., for their thirty-ninth reunion. They were a lean, wiry lot, with 84-year-old drummer boys as youngsters of the gathering. The U. S. Marine Band played "Dixie." So great was the excitement that two oldsters were hospitalized. One died. Old codgers sat about swapping stories of Fair Oaks, Chickamauga, Spottsylvania Court House. Time...
...author of eight volumes of poetry and is a contributor to many periodicals. For two years, he was president of the New England Poetry Club. Governor Roosevelt, in addition to being Phi Bet Kappa orator, will serve as chief marshal of his class at its twenty-fifth reunion...
Saturday's Children (First National). The marriage, parting and reunion of Maxwell Anderson's hero and heroine?one of the best of all U. S. plays?becomes heavy and slow in this partly-vocal photograph directed with sincerity but without much vitality by Gregory La Cava. Corinne Griffith's voice, heard for the first time, is nasal, unattractive, but somehow memorable. Best shot: Miss Griffith getting her sweetheart to marry...
...investment banking field as I doubt if there is a man who goes through Harvard College who at one time or another does not have it suggested to him that he enter the field of investment banking, or as it is perhaps better known--selling bonds. At a reunion, one Class advertised the fact that out of some five hundred members, four hundred and ninety-nine of them were bond salesmen...
...existing oil companies, Vacuum Oil Co. was reported ready and anxious to unite with Standard Oil Co. of New York. As Vacuum makes lubricants (Gargoyle Mobiloil) and Standard of New York makes fuel (Socony gasoline), the two companies do not compete. Hence, the Department of Justice may approve their reunion...