Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago Samuel Gompers journeyed to the American Federation of Labor convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923, et seq.). His little cloth bunny was his mascot, a raggedy image of Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit whose nimble wits were so like Gomper's own. At that convention he was jubilant, declared: "On my honor as a man and as an adopted citizen of the United States,* with all sympathy for other people in their struggles toward realization of an ideal of freedom, I declare that I believe the Republic of the United States...
...years ago Samuel Gompers died on the Mexican Border. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise performed the ceremony for the dead at the Elks Club in Manhattan. Then they buried him in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, at Tarrytown, N. Y., where the Very Rev. Oscar F. R. Treder, dean of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Garden City, L. I., draped his coffin with the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason. As the frozen lumps of earth clumped down on his coffin they seemed to boom up a phrase he once cried: "I have almost had my very soul burned...
...only 14 years after his graduation, Perkins became a member of the Corporation, when he filled the vacancy created by the death of Samuel Hoar '67. He was at that time the youngest Fellow of Harvard College ever elected. Perkins served in this capacity until 1924, when he resigned in order that he might be a member of the Reparations Commission in Europe...
...room bungalow atop the Hotel Morrison, welcomed in for its dedication 300 members of the American Hotelmen's Association who were in Chicago for a three-day convention. Later they re-elected Thomas D. Green (Woodward Hotel, Manhattan) president; chose Fred Bering (Hotel Sherman, Chicago) secretary, Samuel E. Leeds (Atlantic City) treasurer...
Licensed to Marry. Nettie, Samuel, and Leo Rosenblatt, children of famed Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt; to Harry Reiss, Clara Woloch and Doris Podoll respectively; in New York...