Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board of engineers-the Secretary of War, the Chief of Army Engineers, the president of the Mississippi River Commission, two civil engineers to be appointed by the President-to conclude differences in plans and supervise work...
Destiny is a strange thing. For some men it flows evenly, broadening like a river. For others it expands like a gas. If the expansion is hurried there may be an explosion and a man's career will settle to earth in floccules of soot...
...order that the Nanking Government should not "lose face" in China by making these promises, Minister MacMurray assured Nationalist Huang-Fu that the U. S. State Department is "willing to express regret" that it was necessary for a U. S. river gunboat to bombard Nanking during the troublous times...
Before the War, the Morrows, the Laments, the Davisons and the Thomas Cochrans (Morgan partner since 1917) all lived in Englewood, N. J., across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since the War Mr. Lamont has become (next to John Pierpont Morgan) the best known Morgan partner and U. S. international financier. Mr. Morrow is currently the outstanding U. S. diplomat-Ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Cochran became the Morgan partner on the board of General Motors, and, like Mr. Davison before him, chairman of the executive committee of the Bankers Trust Co. For Henry Pomeroy Davison died in 1922, aged...
Weather conditions permitting, the University flotilla will take to the water in its first two-mile race of the season, this afternoon. The Charles River Basin will be the scene of action for crews. A, B, C and D, stroked by Captain John Watts '28, A. T. Gray '30, M. R. Brownell '30, and James Lawrence '29 respectively...