Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Winthrop Weatherbee Jr. '26 of Boston was elected treasurer; Charles Allen Smart '26, of Forest Hills, N. Y., was elected secretary, Samuel Whiting '26 of Hingham was made business manager, and Richard Linn Edsall of Millwood, Va., was elected Pegasus. The following were added to the literary board: J. D. Keogh '25, Hugh Whitney '25, S. F. Ayers '26, and H. N. Doughty '26. Mr. S. Foster Damon '14 was elected an honorary member of the literary board in recognition of his services to the Advocate during...
...second Tuesday of August which had then long been the customary date. A few days later it was discovered that on the first Wednesday of July (July 2) in 1684 there was to be an eclipse of the sun, whereupon the President, John Rogers, and two of the Fellows, Samuel Andrew and John Cotton, wrote to Increase Matlrer, the most influential member of the board of Overseers, calling his attention to the fact that on that first Wednesday in July 'will fall a grand eclipse of the sun which was not foreseen, or at least not thought...
Manuel C. Tellez, for four years Charge d'Affaires at Washington, was appointed by President Calles Mexican Ambassador to the U. S. It was rumored that President Calles had been recommended to make this appointment by the late Samuel Gompers, in recognition of Senor Tellez work in Washington leading to the recognition of Mexico by the U. S. (TIME...
...were at What Price Glory? and Mr. Paine was finding it moving and tender and humorous, as who does not? We talked of writing, and the friend and biographer of Samuel Clemens proved tolerant, interested in new things, pleased to reminisce of the old. Did he remember Stephen Crane? Indeed he did; in fact, he had reread The Red Badge of Courage within the last month. He remembered Stephen in the days of The Lantern, a literary club in the downtown regions, where Crane and others congregated-Crane pale, nervous, always a good fellow...
...before his retirement. It was never contemplated that if he were chosen by the Executive Committee he should be given the office again at the annual convention next fall. Friends of Mr. Woll pointed out that he was youthful, that of all the candidates he had been closest to Samuel Gompers. It was known, further, that Mr. Gompers had wished that Mr. Woll should succeed him, although the latter belongs rather to the radical wing of the organization. William Green was the candidate of the mine workers and the carpenters, the two largest groups of the Federation. He belongs rather...