Word: barrett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people who would-not like to have the power to write," continued Mr. Ellsworth, "and to write so that other people would want to read them, as we want to read Mark Twain and Stevenson and H. G. Wells. How can you learn to do it? I asked Barrett Wendell once,--he was a professor of English literature at Harvard for a quarter of a century, if he knew a way, and this is what he wrote...
...Hoover had started a buzz of farm relief talk at White Pine Camp. Later, Charles S. Barrett, head of the National Farmers' Union, came up for the weekend. Finally the President announced a plan to put into effect, privately and unofficially, the farm relief program which he indorsed at the last session of Congress...
...Insull, public utility archangel, who admitted giving $183,000 to successful candidate Frank L. Smith and to other friends and factions; Edward H. Wright, Chicago Negro boss, who is the Second Ward; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, prosecutor of famed Loeb and Leopold, now the leader of the Crowe-Barrett gang; Daniel J. Schuyler, attorney for Mr. Insull; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, who openly defied the committee in behalf of Senatorial Candidate Vare, Pennsylvania slush prizewinner...
...Crowe (Leopold and Loeb prosecutor) ; A. F. Moore, Col. Smith's campaign manager, who himself contributed $75,000 to his candidate's campaign. The inquisition had disclosed the following expenditures: Frank L. Smith ...........$287,282.70 William B. McKinley .... 346,616.72 Deneen county ticket .... 130,894.63 Crowe-Barrett county ticket ........150,000.00 George E. Brennan and Democrats ..........20,841.42 Totals admitted...
...Yale team which gave the University its closest battle last year, is quite new in composition, though three of its members have been playing polo for five years and more. C. R. Barrett will be seen at number 1. W. F. C. Guest at number 2. F. C. Baldwin number 3. and W. K. Muir, captain, at back. Guest is the only one of those who played last year and he is a veteran as young polo players go, being the son of Captain the Hon. F. E. Guest, the famous British internationalist. Baldwin is a brother...