Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge, warming up more than usual, called the boy "our ambassador without portfolio"; pinned on his coat lapel the Distinguished Flying Cross; gave him his commission of Colonel in the Officers' Reserve Corps. The boy replied with seven short sentences, keeping his promise to Europe by delivering a message of friendship...
...press for days with one of their favorite words? "slap." The President, they reiterated, had "slapped at" Secretary of Commerce Hoover. The President at first ignored this press palaver but, when it did not abate, reproved the correspondents by saying he considered Mr. Hoover capable of fitting any portfolio a President has to give...
When President Paul von Hindenburg maneuvered the German Monarchists into entering and supporting the new "Big Coalition Cabinet" of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx (TIME, Feb. 7), there stepped up to shoulder the weighty Portfolio of Finance a Roman Catholic Centrist then internationally little known, Dr. Heinrich Koehler. Immediately he became famed by uttering early, late and often the most dire and pessimistic warnings that Germany would not for long be able to meet her scheduled payments under the Dawes Plan. Yet when Dr. Koehler presented his first Budget, not even his inveterate pessimism could becloud several cheerful facts...
...from the Law School and one from Radcliffe College, cost $2.50 a year. A literary magazine, the "Harvard Monthly", was edited by men from the two upper classes. The "Harvard Index", issued annually, contained a directory and record of the social and athletic life of the University. The "Harvard Portfolio," an illustrated record "containing pictures of the Senior Class, College teams, etc.", was issued annually. "Portraits of the Harvard Faculty" was also published annually...
Instead of appointing a new Foreign Minister, last week, Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera took this portfolio himself...