Word: wharton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court listened to a dispute on the Constitution between Solicitor General James M. Beck and Senator George Wharton Pepper. Mr. Beck represented the person and office of the President. Senator Pepper represented the Senate...
William McCleIlan, onetime (1916-19) Dean of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an electrical engineer (Paine, McClellan & Campion, Manhattan...
...Rules for Writers. At their meeting, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association passed upon a rule governing the activities of tennis champions who, for one consideration or another, are moved to write for the press. This rule, recently framed by a special committee headed by U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, bars writers who are also tennis champions from 1) using their titles to advertise their articles, 2) writing about tournaments in which they are at the moment participating. The rule was unanimously ratified by the Association...
...Edith Wharton...
Deliberations followed. It was decided to give an Academy gold medal to Walter Hampden, actor, "for good diction on the stage"; an Institute gold medal to Edith Wharton, author, for her achievements in fiction. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, son-in-law of Mark Twain, late Academician, played for the session. In the absence of Professor William Milligan Sloane, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, chancellor, presided...