Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Genro (Elder Statesmen), had the same two eminent callers again & again last fortnight. They were harassed Premier Viscount Makoto Saito and his Minister of War, General Senjuro Hayashi. Discord, scandal and sickness have jolted five men out of Saito's Cabinet. Hayashi wanted to be the sixth. Cause was his younger brother Yukichi who had been adopted as a child by the family of Shirakami and taken that name. The General felt that he was still responsible for his brother's acts, whatever his name, and Yukichi, as Deputy Mayor of Tokyo, had been convicted of accepting...
...John H. Dean '34, chairman. The new members of the committee are E. Francis Bowditch '35, recently named Philips Brooks House secretary-treasurer, and Thomas H. Quinn '36, Liberal Club president. Those reelected were Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, Henry R. Withington '35, and Gordon F. Robertson '36. The sixth member of the committee will be chosen in the fall from the Sophomore class. Next year's chairman will be elected at the next meeting...
...York's Carnegie Hall a great audience rose to its feet as a slender little man with a stick under his arm made his way as swiftly and inconspicuously as possible to the conductor's stand. For him the business of the afternoon was Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the Franck D Minor. But for once he had to pause until the audience had shown its reverence for Arturo Toscanini...
Engaged. Charles Francis Adams Jr., 23, son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy, descendant of John and John Quincy Adams, second & sixth U. S. Presidents; and Margaret Stockton, 19, daughter of Philip Stockton, president of Boston's First National Bank. ¶ To Abbe Georges Lemaitre, professor at the University of Louvain. now lecturing at Catholic University in Washington, D. C., author of the ''expanding universe" theory which views the present universe as shrapnel of one atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance...
This appointment launches the project of the creation of a centralized purchasing department for municipal supplies and equipment. By this action, Cambridge becomes the sixth city in Massachusetts to adopt this system, which is expected to save about 15 per cent of the total cost of city's purchases...