Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation was offered. None seemed likely to be offered. But shrewd observers remembered that in the next Congress Oscar De Priest will sit as Representative from the First District, Chicago. Naturally he will bring Mrs. Jessie Williams De Priest with him to Washington. The shrewd observers recalled that Mr. & Mrs. De Priest are Negroes-he being the only black man to sit in either house of Congress since Negro Representative Henry White of Tarboro...
...walls are tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since where all is priceless nothing can obtrude in garish splendor. Here, last week, John Pierpont Morgan took three minutes to receive and accept the invitation of the Great Powers to sit on the Second Dawes Plan Committee (TIME...
...Powers was Owen D. Young, chairman of the General Electric Co., chairman of the Radio Corp. of America, chief collaborator with General Dawes on the original Plan. Officially Mr. Young and Mr. Morgan will rank as equals on the new Committee; but Mr. Young is expected to sit as chairman...
Never mind; lucky for all lovers of justice and entertainment, the trial will be held again tonight and probably for a good many nights to come at the Wilbur Theatre. Go and serve on the jury, sit in judgement upon this woman and find out that jury duty is the pleasantest task imaginable...
Elihu Root who has been everything from U. S. Secretary of State (1905-1909) to Trustee of the New York Public Library and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted an invitation from the league of Nations, last week, and will sit on a commission called to revise the statutes of the World Court...