Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concourse leading from the station, hoping for a glimpse of the British Heir Apparent. Their patience was scantily rewarded, for the Prince walked quickly through the President's Room and entered the President's closed automobile, at the door of which stood Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright. As the Prince passed through the Capitol grounds and down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, the people made themselves still hotter by cheering lustily the speeding automobile...
...House, the Prince leaped from the car and was ushered into the Presidential mansion by the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of State. President and Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John, were waiting to receive him in the Blue Room. After introductions had been made, Mr. Hughes and Mr. Wright withdrew, leaving the Prince alone in the bosom of the reigning family...
...professional esprit de corps, to maintain the dignity and rights of the profession, to consider and perhaps establish ethical standards for professional conduct' . . . with an initial membership of 124 editors-in-chief and executive editors. . . . This group . . . adopted a set of 'Canons of Journalism' prepared by Mr. H. J. Wright, at that time Editor of the New York Globe. Excellent! But-without wishing to prejudge the utility of such a body, the creation of which is surely a step in the right direction, it is significant that membership belongs not to the man, but to the job! ... It is ironic...
...brief for the League. "It is," he said, "the centre and rallying point of all peaceful forces." Over the question of the Court the leaders of the Conference disagreed. Dr. J. W. Garner asserted that without such a Court and a definite codification, international law was meaningless. Dr. Quincy Wright had a different opinion. "The time is not ripe," he said, "for a codification of international law." Dr. Kraus supported Dr. Wright. There was, however, no debate. Members of the Institute do not argue. They merely fail to agree...
...Orville Wright, pioneer inventor of heavier-than-air machines D.Eng...