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...Senate. The scene shifted to the Senate chamber. After perfunctorily passing a number of minor bills, the Senate recessed to await the President's action on the bills before him. The Senators gathered on the Republican (east) side of the chamber. Extra chairs were brought in. The galleries filled early. The Senators' private gallery, converted into an executive gallery, contained in its first row Colonel Coolidge, Mrs. Goodhue, Miss Skinner, John Coolidge. Mr. and Mrs. Stearns joined them. The Dawes children (Mrs. Malcolm Ericson, and Dana and Virginia, the adopted son and daughter) sat in the second row. Beman, Rufus...
First, in his reference to the manner in which the music was played. I have delayed the writing of this letter in order to await the result of the orchestra's trip to Springfield last Sunday. Here if played precisely the same music as at the Brattle Hall Concert. Had this concert been a failure, as I was led to believe by Mr. Thomson's article, the Brattle Hall Concert was, I would have doubtless been forced to believe the half truths of his article. However, I am saved from this painful conclusion by the following facts; an audience...
...Jackson, stand raised among their armies on the mountain's craggy front, half- formed. In the U. S. mint, 5,000,000 half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side, and an inscription commemorating the valor of Southern arms on the other, await distribution. There are no funds to bring Lee and Jackson from the rock, no funds to distribute the coins which, designed by Sculp tor Borglum, are being minted by the U. S. to stimulate interest in the me morial. Said Mr. Borglum...
Next day, said the Harvard Crimson, undergraduate paper: ". . . Dean Pound's offer from the University of Wisconsin is a trumpet blast. . . . It is no exaggeration to say that undergraduates await Dean Pound's decision almost as eagerly as the Law Students. . . . Many of these undergraduates plan to enter the Law School themselves and there is, in part, a selfish interest. . . . Undergraduates join the men of the Law School in hoping that Dean Pound will choose scholarship as his portion...
That Congressional leaders decided to await the outcome of the suits before considering whether or no to alter the publicity clause of the Revenue...