Word: snell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board. His object, as at his other breakfasts lately, was to impress Congress through its leaders with the necessity of cutting down appropriations, however worthy. Among those present: Senator Norbeck, chairman of the Committee on Pensions (there was a $19,000,000 Spanish War Veterans' Pension Bill pending); Mr. Snell, Chairman of the House Committee on Rules (which has power to block much legislation); several members of the House Committee on Agriculture (which is dealing with expensive farm relief measures...
...convention, dull. Of the celebrated pictures and sculpture they could find nothing new to say, and after examining the many other interesting specimens they could only express an inevitable doubt that such opera as "A Frosty Morning, Montclair," "The Hurrying River" by Robert H. Nisbet, "Afterglow" by Henry B. Snell, "The Last Moments of John Brown" by Thomas Hovenden will be considered "masterpieces" at the end of another, even though an equally enterprising century...
...Miss Violet Burd Grubb of Burlington, N. J., Miss Rosalie Evans of Manhattan, Miss Florence Pratt of Manhattan, Miss Helen Sheldon of London, Miss Annie Laurie Warmack of St. Louis, Mo ; Mrs Cass Gilbert of New York and Ridgefield, Conn. Mars. H. A. Murray of Boston, Mrs Bertrand H. Snell of New York and Washington...
...allowing the visitors only five hits. He is sure to meet competition of a much sterner sort this afternoon, and he will have a dangerous opponent in the Brown leader who throws and bats left-handed. Trumbower has turned in a better record this year than any of Coach Snell's hurlers, although he is naturally a fielder, conscripted to the pitching string this year by the dearth at Providence of good hurlers...
...prepared by the White House chef instead of by the usual caterer. There were 46 guests, including all the members of the Cabinet and their wives except Mr and Mrs. James J. Davis, who are in South America (TIME, Nov. 17). Senators Warren, Borah, Wadsworth, Butler, Curtis; Representatives Snell, Sanders (Ind.), Madden, Longworth; Colonel George Harvey, Director of the Budget Lord, John Hays Hammond, C. Bascom Slemp were included. Most of those who had wives brought them. Some of the unattended ladies were Representative Mae E. Nolan, Mrs. Eugene Hale (mother of Senator Hale of Maine and widow of Senator...