Word: jr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BURRUS JR...
...Morrow, it was announced, had declared his willingness to run for the office when the term ends next autumn. New Jersey Republicans smiled with satisfaction at this exchange of Ambassadors and Senators, felt they were making a fine bargain. They spoke appreciatively of David Baird Jr., the man appointed last fortnight to be Senator ad interim (TIME, Dec. 2), who will step down for Mr. Morrow as his father before him once stepped down for Mr. Edge...
...first "talkie" conviction in a U. S. court. Said Judge James Gay Gordon Jr. in admitting the use of the device to the trial: "Such a confession is more valuable than a mere oral or signed...
Current with the Philadelphia Museum report was an article in December Atlantic Monthly by Frank Jewett Mather Jr., onetime editorial writer and art critic (New York Evening Post), Professor of Art at Princeton University. Pleading for smaller museums, he tilted at the enormous Metropolitan (Manhattan) and the Pennsylvania Museums of Art. He advocated decentralization of big U. S. museums into smaller museums each covering a special phase of art. He explained...
Modernists, behaviorists, say that "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" will teach children to steal pigs. They call "Little Jack Homer" bad-mannered. They say that "The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon" is cruelly improbable. Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., herself a child prodigy (she "used a typewriter" at the age of three), has tried to attack Mother Goose constructively by promulgating informative jingles, rhymes that "represent life" (TIME, Jan. 12, 1925). Example...