Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month after its first birthday, pow erful Aviation Corp., $40,000,000 holding company, last week acquired a new president. Lean, sharp-witted Graham Bethune Grosvenor stepped down to vice-chairman of the directorate while gaunt, eye-glassed, solemn-looking but humorous Frederic Gallup Coburn stepped up from the directorate and assumed the No. 1 title. Avco published no reasons for the change but well-informed observers knew the following...
...from the Senate Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois? and William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania. Illinois and Pennsylvania were again having bitter senatorial contests which Senator Norris wanted to keep under sharp observation. The Norris resolution went to the Committee on Privileges & Elections, chairmanned by California's Senator Samuel Morgan ("Solemn Sam") Shortridge. There the resolution languished...
...President Simmons touring abroad, Mr. Whitney's official nomination was made. Such a matter is treated with almost sacred regularity. On the first Monday in January, the Exchange nominates nominators. On the second Monday, these are approved. On the second Mondays of February and March the nominators consider in solemn conclave. On the second Monday in April they reveal their choice. On the second Monday in May the election proper is held. Never is there more than one nominee; never is there doubt as to who this will...
Brahm's Quartet in B flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $10)?Brahms in a solemn, pastoral mood treated by the Leners in the lush, romantic fashion characteristic of their gypsy confr?...
...Christendom and of Jewry stood before their believing flocks, raised high their prayers for brooding, savage, militantly godless Russia. In Manhattan a host of 3,500 Protestants gathered in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to hear Bishop William Thomas Manning, guarded by three detectives, conduct a solemn service of supplication. The proceedings were similar to those which took place throughout the western world and in far-away missionary lands-a multitudinous echoing of the cry of Christ: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." Also typical of what was happening elsewhere was a meeting, held...