Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner in honor of the President and Mrs. Coolidge. His daughter, Mrs. A. W. Bissell of Evanston, Ill., acted as his hostess. Who were the guests? It may safely be said that seldom have the President and Mrs. Coolidge sat down to dinner with so many bigwigs: British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard; Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone; Major General Charles P. Summerall (Chief of Staff) ; Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania; Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel; Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Henry...
...delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members of the House of Commons. In another part of the Palace of Westminster they were dallying overlong with a ceremony of quaint historic significance. They were rebuffing the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. . . . Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., K.C.M. B., B.D.S.O., receives $1,000 per annum ($4,860) for acting as the Black Rod, and carrying it: a massive staff of ebony surmounted by a golden lion. Last week he was sent, as usual, to summon the Speaker and the Commons before the Lords...
...Straton to be President of the U. S. Said Dr. Straton: "If I were President, I'd try to get Henry Ford to serve in my Cabinet. He's a good Christian. If I were President, I'd call out the Army and Navy, yes, sir! and I'd close the dance halls, the sinks of iniquity, and I'd enforce Prohibition and all the other laws. If I were President, my first official act would be to jail Nicholas Murray Butler. Murray is, of course, just one of those who are preaching sedition with...
Married. Aileen Hughes, daughter of the late General Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian "War Minister"; to one James Freeman Clarke, at Lindsay...
Such a respite, however, was strongly recommended by Sir John Adams, Professor of Education at the University of London, when interviewed by the Crimson. He seemed to feel that the system might encounter difficulties, though, because of the fact that American students are accustomed to a paternalistic attitude on the part of the college...