Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that drinking as it was done at the University in pre-prohibition days was even beneficial. It brought about a spirit of comradeship and opportunities for social gatherings largely lacking at present; and, above all, it taught men how to act when, so to speak, they 'had a little bit aboard...
...same issue, you speak of "Pilot Ben Bielson" in connection with the Wilkins Polar expedition. Ben is a native of the little Red River Valley town of Hatton, N. Dak. During the War he served in the air forces of the A. E. F. Coming home, he was graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1921, and has since been in the flying business in Alaska. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity...
...Abbott spent the week in jail. Meanwhile the law making it a criminal offense for anyone to speak derogatorily of Mussolini was applied to a woman for the first time, last week, when a certain Malvina Fregoli was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment...
...luncheons in Room B of the Union, all the members of the Club also being in the membership of that institution. At these luncheons, the 35 or more men in the Chancery are enabled to meet socially. In addition, various members of the Faculty are often invited to speak to the men and discuss legal problems informally with them...
...convention of the Associated Press, an organization formed a quarter-century ago by newspaper publishers, to distribute news among themselves on a nonprofit-making basis. The routine business of this gathering was to consider ways and means of expanding and expediting news distribution, to hear Secretary of State Kellogg speak on foreign relations, and to elect as officers; Frank B. Noyes (Washington Star), president; Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune), first vice president; J. N. Heiskell (Little Rock, Ark., Gazette), second vice president. They reelected: Melville E. Stone (a former general manager) secretary, and Kent Cooper, able Hoosier, general manager...