Word: entertains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President and Mrs. Conant will be out of town and, therefore, will be unable to entertain the members of the faculties and their wives on Sunday afternoon, February...
...John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the garrulous Bronx schoolmaster who projected himself into the Lindbergh kidnapping case and helped Colonel Lindbergh get rid of $50,000 to no avail. A guest at West Falmouth, "Jafsie" had convinced Editor Oursler, who candidly admits his magazine function is primarily to entertain the publie, that he had "new material" to reveal...
...Cambridge had been the ideal in the creation of the Harvard house system only five years ago. Some of the houses it is true have weekly formal dinners with Master and Fellows at the high table, reminiscent of Cambridge Hall, but on other occasions undergraduates are allowed to entertain women guests to meals in the dining rooms. The King of Navarre's academe does not survive the Atlantic crossing...
...full price for Hay Creek remained a secret. Under Sheepman Sanderson its flock of 20,000 Rambouillets became the world's finest. For breeding purposes the Soviet Commissar of Agriculture has bought a total of 27,000. Hay Creek Rambouillet sheep are so big that the herders entertain visitors by riding them. Other Hay Creek livestock include 100 blooded horses, 5,000 purebred Herefords...
...begin to run in his direction. In 1932 he won Congressional approval of the 20th Amendment of the Constitution, ending "lame duck" sessions of Congress. Then he secured passage of the Norris-LaGuardia bill restricting the powers of courts to grant injunctions in labor cases and forbidding them to entertain suits based on labor contracts that forbid workers to join unions. Next year followed TVA, to insure Government operation of Muscle Shoals for which he had been vainly struggling for a decade; the year after Nebraska's unicameral. One other major reform which he still hopes to leave behind...