Word: provost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your King." Quitting the Queen Mary bareheaded in a pouring rain amid fresh roars of "Good old Teddy!" the Sovereign drove off rapidly over an unannounced route with John Stewart, Lord Provost of Glasgow. Scotsman Stewart later chuckled: "The King is a very human man. In my private room he showed me how to balance a penny. When I tried to emulate His Majesty and failed he said: 'Please give me back my penny. You know I am a Scotsman...
...that Dean Miller of U. C. L. A., carrying on an investigation of his own, reported to Provost Moore that he thought Key ineligible on the basis of new information developed since the time the Pacific Coast Conference okayed Key's eligibility? And that they, not a California student manager, advised Spaulding that Key could not play in the all-important game with University of California at Berkeley...
...Congress voted a selective draft and President Wilson proclaimed June 5 as Registration Day. So early a date would have been impossible had not a daring young officer named Hugh Samuel Johnson in the Provost Marshal General's office presumed to draw up and have printed in advance 45,000,000 registration questionnaires. Major Johnson, who had also written the draft bill, promptly mailed his cards to 80,000 sheriffs and mayors. Governors divided their States into registration districts of approximately 30,000 inhabitants. Newspaper notices told prospective draftees where to report-at their regular election polling places...
...hillside, glistened in the sun. President Sproul led the way with Governor Frank Finley Merriam, ex-officio chairman of the Board of Regents. Be hind, with her speech in a Department of Labor "penalty" envelope, trudged Secretary Perkins, escorted by California's best-loved professor, Vice President and Provost Monroe Emanuel Deutsch. Behind them, Citizen Hoover and General David Prescott Barrows, the university's onetime president who led the National Guard to break up the General Strike when Miss Perkins dallied. Mr. Hoover slipped into his gown just before the procession puffed through a fringe of eucalyptus trees...
...that distracted Provost Moore tossed the whole affair up to his highly embarrassed superior, President Sproul. Last week President Sproul arrived grim-faced in Los Angeles to begin a thoroughgoing investigation. Said he: "I want to get at the underlying truth of the entire question, which at present is not altogether clear...