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Word: elis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaders. While Mr. Morrow will have no official standing as a Senate leader because of his lack of seniority, he will nevertheless be able to exert a strong Hoover influence on the Senate's nominal leadership. Senator James Eli Watson has made such a poor fist of leading the Senate since last April that his Republican followers have been casting about for a means of displacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lineup Changes | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...clock. Movies of the Harvard-Yale game of this year are to be shown; E. L. Casey '17, Harvard backfield coach, will be on hand to explain the Crimson plays, and Charles Comer-ford, who coached the Yale ends this year, is to speak about the Eli plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exeter Alumni Convene | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...wholly or in part to protect the U. S. Federal Reserve, which, under Article Twenty, has power to veto any dollar transactions contemplated in any country by the Bank. Getting this clause adopted was the major triumph at Baden-Baden of the two U. S. representatives, short, stocky Jackson Eli Reynolds and lanky, drawling Melvin Alva ("Mel") Traylor, presidents of the First National Banks of New York and Chicago, respectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Signed & Sealed | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Chairman? Chairman? As the delegates left Baden-Baden, New York's Jackson Eli Reynolds, though he had served as Chairman of the Conference with brilliant, driving power, was not mentioned as prospective Chairman of the Bank. Taciturn in the extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Signed & Sealed | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Taylor, another one of the Sophomores on Coach Stevens' squad that will get a crack at the Harvard line today. Last Saturday he figured in the two, Eli passes that brought the second touchdown and the point after touchdown. He also is a baseball star and last Spring was Deven's opponent in the Harvard-Yale Freshmen game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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