Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for this apathetic response was that the President's appeal in January was soon blanketed by subsequent world headlines. Another reason was that the chairmanship of the Red Cross has been vacant since the death of Admiral Grayson. Last week President Roosevelt persuaded his grey and graceful Ambassador-at-Large, Norman Hezekiah Davis, to take the vacant post...
...simultaneous notes to the German Government. Note No. 1 recognized the annexation, stated that the U. S. "finds itself under the necessity as a practical measure" of closing its Vienna legation and appointing a consular staff in its place. Net result, since the U. S. ministry in Austria was vacant anyway, was that John C. Wiley will stay on as consul general. Excerpt from Note No. 2: "I have to notify the German Government that the . . . United States will look to it for the discharge of the relief indebtedness of . . . Austria to the . . . United States." Austria's debt...
...heard one of the most important contributions that the American History Plan has yet given the University or the general public. Professor Felix Frankfurter has become one of the public figures of the nation, with his name cropping up in the metropolitan press, whenever a Supreme Court post becomes vacant, or a major change in Administration policy is decided upon. But with the glorification of the Professor into a public figure, the immediate Harvard community is bound to suffer, for no one can be a household word and yet remain readily accessible for students or the public...
...addition to the coaching staff was made to fill the position left vacant by the promotion of Johnny Wood to head backfield mentor replacing Howard O'Dell, who has gone to Pennsylvania University...
...thick-skulled world; nobody has caught the tones of its odd, original speech, or the flavor of its half-ironic, half-fatuous humor. But with a collection of brief sketches published last month, a young Manhattan reporter looked like the most promising candidate so far for Lardner's vacant post. His stories showed much of Lardner's tormented sympathy for voluble boneheads, a good deal of his ability to write common speech without making it grotesque, but less of Lardner's misanthropy or his flair for turning a street-corner conversation into a story of general significance...