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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked if he thought the Nationalists would achieve success, Professor Horn- beck replied: "The Nationalist idea will eventually, I think, prevail all over China. Whether the present drive of the Nationalist government, merely a manifestation of the idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SHANGHAI ALIENS SAFE"--HORNBECK | 3/24/1927 | See Source »

After 50 years service as a University dormitory Beck Hall is to be sold. Yesterday morning the "For Sale" sign appeared under written by the name of Sleeper and Dunlop, real estate agents. It has always been in private hands and many times before has been on the point of being demolished. Once the alumni contributed to a fund to avoid its destruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BECK HALL ON SALE AFTER 50 YEARS AS COLLEGE BUILDING | 3/12/1927 | See Source »

Last week, in the high-vaulted room of the U. S. Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, a premier constitutional lawyer named Jack's name. Onetime Solicitor General James M. Beck,* on behalf of Col. Frank L. Smith, Senator-designate from Illinois, did so to remind the learned Senators that a Democracy should, by most any definition, permit the people to elect a reprobate their representative. Mr. Beck had many another famed precedent. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jack, Daniel, Frank | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Beck was far from saying that Colonel Smith is a reprobate, either personally or politically. He pointed out that Colonel Smith, as Public Utilities Commissioner, had never raised a utility rate, and that, by a lowering of rates, one company had lost $40,000,000, and that Company was run by Samuel Insull, his chief backer. Lawyer Beck concluded his case as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jack, Daniel, Frank | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...RUSSELL 1-12--Henry Brandmiller 11 13-25--A. G. Churchill 15 RUSSELL ANNEX West Entry--William Stephens 31 East Entry--W. G. Glenn 14 WESTMORLY 1-27--J. P. Chase 45 31-47--G. T. Bolster 42 101-126--S. Boal 123 131-146--N. W. Bragdon 133 BECK HALL 1-30--R. S. Holden 2 31-47--Henry Statter Jr. 31 9 BOW STREET Entire--F. A. Clark 54 DUNSTER STREET Entire--G. A. Fitts 6 HOLYOKE PLACE Entire--S. F. Dana 60 MT. AUBURN STREET Entire--C. M. Abbott 66 MT. AUBURN STREET Entire--N. B. Parker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND OF 125 PROSECUTES CLOTHING DRIVE OF P.B.H. | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

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