Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rockefeller Foundation has promised seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars when the Fund reaches the two million, two hundred thousand mark. Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr., impatient to sign that check, has promised another for one hundred thousand if the required goal is reached by July 1 of this year. The only thing lacking in such a setting is a thermometer of the Liberty Loan variety in front of Langdell...
...Benchley's affidavit formed, with four other affidavits, part of a petition sent last week to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts by Mr. Vanzetti. Mr. Sacco refused to sign the petition, calling it inconsistent with his anarchistic principles. Dr. Abraham Myerson, Boston psychiatrist, said that Mr. Sacco's seven years of confinement had "brought about an abnormal state in which his [radical] fanaticism has been intensified into an obsession." In spite of Mr. Sacco's refusal to sign, the petition was presented as a joint plea from both the condemned...
...Dayton, Ohio, a flat-bottomed boat which had seen service in the 1913 Dayton flood was put on exhibition with a sign: "THEY HELPED US IN 1913? LET'S HELP THEM...
...catch-word and more of an actuality as definite steps continue to be taken in the direction of really attaining athletic facilities for everyone. The announcement that sixteen new tennis courts and six acres of playing field are being laid out near the Business School is accordingly a comforting sign; it is one more evidence that the new Harvard athletic policy is a sincere project as well as a high-minded platform...
...against the Coolidge Administration boiled over and the American Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai met and demanded resignation from its membership of the China Weekly Review, the sole U. S. owned newspaper in Shanghai. Its editor, John B. Powell of Hannibal, Mo., felt obliged late last week to re-sign as president of a prominent Chino-British-U. S. Shanghai club. For what was he thus censured...