Word: wield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert L. Green '39, captain of the 1938 football team, will wield the gavel at the meeting, which is being sponsored by the Harvard Refugee Committee. Other speakers scheduled are Dean Hanford, and Robert E. Lane '39, chairman of the Committee...
...Interstate & Foreign Commerce), New York's Cullen (No. 2 on Ways & Means, Tammany manager in the House, but tractable), or Virginia's Drewry (Democratic Congressional Committee). In Chicago, Mr. Sabath, who was born in what later became Czechoslovakia, hopefully said: "Whatever power I can wield [as chairman] will be used to see that Chicago gets its share of Federal appropriations...
...representative at the London conference, at which Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy presided, was Albert Gain Black, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. A drawling, scholarly man whose hair is the color of July wheat. Economist Black, 42, took to farming almost before he could wield a pitchfork, taught agricultural economics at Iowa State College for four years, joined the AAA's inner council in 1935. Well-qualified to expound the ever-normal granary plan to the London delegates, Economist Black nevertheless failed to convince them...
...Kemp will wield the baton when the Deacons hold their formal spring dance on Friday, April 22, scheduled for 10:30 to 3 o'clock...
...whereas he was really slight, with thin lips, jet black hair, keen eyes, and a perpetually courteous air. Like Freidrich Nietzche, whom he most resembles in historical significance, he was an unhappy man. He seemed never to attain his ends, never to be near enough the throne to wield the sceptre, never able to find a champion for his cause. Patriotism devoured him, yet America had her Sam Adams whose name is far from disrepute...