Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover has no great fancy for women in public office. Nevertheless, appreciative of her excellent work in the past, he returned to Jessie Dell, a Georgia Democrat, her resignation as a U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, thus retaining her in office. He also sent back unaccepted the resignation of General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff...
...Congress nevertheless passed the bill containing, in modified form, a refund publicity clause drafted by Tennessee's loquacious Senator McKellar. So soon as Herbert Hoover became President, Senator McKellar attacked the reappointment of Secretary Mellon with a resolution directing the Senate's Judiciary Committee to enquire into Mr. Mellon's fitness-for-office...
Last week in Hoboken, N. J., their ''last seacoast of Bohemia," Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstarf Gribble revived The Black Crook. Next day not a newspaper blushed, no pulpit peeped. Nevertheless, Hoboken's Lyric Theatre had scarcely more than standing room, not, of course, because The Black Crook is shocking in 1929, but because it is "quaint.'' The only trouble with it is that it is entirely too quaint. In their efforts to be sure the audience understands just how funny it looks and sounds after all these years, the actors...
...Flying Club, which was started in 1925, is a self-supporting organization, its entire revenue being derived from initiation fees, dues, and flying rates, which are, nevertheless, comparatively low. The purpose of the club is to furnish experience in flying to those who desire it and to provide opportunities for members of the University to fly at rates less than half the standard commercial rates...
...Treaty of Trianon has prescribed the right of Hungary to the language and education of her minorities. Nevertheless it is for the most part stultified by the stipulation of the law whereby Roumanians (Hungarians and former Hungarian citizens) who have "forgotten" their mother tongue must send their children to Roumanian schools. And the same situation obtains in Czeckoslovakia and Jugoslavia. It means that the Hungarian schools in these three countries step by step cease to exist, and all Hungarians are compelled to attend the national schools of the respective successor states. The minority treaty concluded, for instance, between the Allied...