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...measures. He is not in the position in which Andrew Johnson found himself, where he must await passively the worst which the legislative body can do, for he is now the representative of the central government at Washington. This is a fact that he has taken great care to ascertain...
...athletic nation and as a miserable exercise for able-bodied men in the prime of youth and health and strength. There are few more depressing spectacles than that of a large crowd of the flower of both sexes watching two Herculean youths lying on a putting green endeavoring to ascertain the easiest means of poking a stationary little ball into a relatively large...
...result of the rural credits discussion in Washington last year was the authorization of a joint commission of Senators and Representatives, whose duty it would be to ascertain why it was that 9,678 banks in this country eligible for membership in the Reserve System, had not seen fit to join it. The commission will travel into every state in the Union and hold hearings in all significant banking centers...
Verner Warren Clapp 2G., whose disappearance on Thursday, May 17, was the cause of a state-wide search to ascertain his whereabouts, is now at his home in Dover, N. R., according to information received from his cousin last night...
...method satisfactory, and a third adds his name with the reservation that he believes the present method of nominating Overseers by committee and by petition "has always given the voting body ample opportunity to make excellent suggestions", but that he sees no harm in "investigating the general subject to ascertain if, by ingenuity, an even better plan may be devised...