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...President Coolidge nominated Irwin Boyle Laughlin, veteran of 20 years in the diplomatic service, to be Minister to Greece. The post at Athens has been vacant for nearly four years...
...member was inducted to fill the vacant Republican place on the Senate Committee on Public Lands? Senator Spencer of Missouri (Senator Lenroot having resigned). On his first appearance Senator Spencer attempted to do some questioning of a witness but was called to order by Senator Walsh, Democrat of Montana, who objected to "words being put in the witness' mouth...
Said Senator Borah of Idaho: "Judge Kenyon knows more about law books than about battleships"? a remark which led many to suspect that the Judge might accept the Attorney-Generalship should it fall vacant...
...gallery were ranged prominent alumni of the University. The second balcony as well as nearly filled when, at ten minutes past three, the doors were thrown open to the public and a crowd of students and alumni who had been unable to obtain reserved seats, thronged in, taking every vacant place and crowding into the aisles...
Genevieve Clark Thomson, of New Orleans, able golfer, announced her candidacy for the seat in the House which fell vacant with the death of H. Garland Dupre (TIME, Mar. 3). Thomson is a name known in New Orleans, because James M. Thomson is publisher of The Item. Mrs. Thomson is his wife. But the whole country knows the name of the late Champ Clark. Mrs. Thomson is his daughter...