Word: becks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday afternoon at the hearing of the Beck Hall Trust before the Board of Appeals, E. S. Emery '87, Assistant Comptroller of the University, field a formal objection to the erection of the projected ten story apartment building planned by the Trust. This opposition from Harvard puts an entirely new aspect upon the proposed improvement of the Beck Hall property...
...petition is granted it will mean that construction will begin within two or three months. Beck Hall will be torn down at that time, notwithstanding the present student residents. G. P. Davis '14, trustee of the property, stated, however, that arrangements would be made for the protection of those who are now living there...
...Evans−were put out of the tournament. Voigt, after beating Sweetser, played through the quarter finals to meet Phil Perkins, the British Walker Cup Captain, in the semifinals. Bobby Jones, playing better every day, after going to an extra-hole to eliminate Gorton, the homeclub entrant, beat John Beck...
...Governorship. That was won by Walter Jodok Kohler, affluent maker of plumbing fixtures, builder of a "model" village (Kohler, Wis.), father of grown sons, flyer of a speedy airplane, regent of the State University, adherent of Nominee Hoover. The La Follette candidate, U. S. Representative Joseph D. Beck, ran a Wet second by some 20,000 votes. A Dry third ran Fred R. Zimmerman, Wisconsin's present Governor...
Perhaps Governor Zimmerman's endorsement by the W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League helped ruin him. Wisconsin is an oldtime Wet. Perhaps the Hon. Zimmerman's former membership in the La Follette contingent helped split Candidate Beck's vote. Perhaps the La Follette grasp on Wisconsin is slipping in the second generation. Or, perhaps Nominee Walter Jodok Kohler is a wealthy manufacturer with a real flair for politics, a convincing program...