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...Congressman Robert Low Bacon died, and the G.O.P. bosses tapped Hall to replace him. That November Hall won the first of seven successive terms in the House of Representatives. In 1941 he was one of 21 Republicans who crossed party lines to vote for the Selective Service Extension Act-which was passed by a single vote. "In questions of war and peace," says Hall, "if you think your party is wrong, you must vote your conscience...
...Tennyson manuscripts are part of a wide variety of other works in English and American literature and history recently acquired by the Houghton Library, Jackson said. Earlier this week, the library announced the acquisition of rare editions of Bacon, Locke, Hobbes, Erasmus, Dante, and other early writers...
Rare editions of such writers as Dante, John Locke, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and Erasmus have been added to the Houghton Library's collection of valuable books and manuscripts...
Dante is represented by a copy of the rare 1508 first edition of a discussion of the two elements "water and earth." Another Houghton addition is a copy of the first English translation of Francis Bacon's "Advancement of Learning...
...strong at the top three positions as usual with Ben Heckscher, Cal Place, and Pete Milton winning easily. However, Barnaby was pleased mainly by the bottom three players, who moved up from the second team to replace varsity men who couldn't make the trip. John Davis, Frank Bacon, and Hank Holmes all came through with convincing victories...