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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover, working out his sub-Cabinet appointments last week, began on the four air officers-Assistant Secretary of War (F. Trubee Davison), Second. Assistant Postmaster General (Warren I. Glover), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics (William P. MacCracken Jr.). The President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover and to accept resignations from Messrs. Warner and MacCracken. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval...
...They expected the ouster movement would die a quiet death when the Judiciary Committee reports. For ten minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether he might prove to be other than the meek & mild presiding officer that he was expected to be. He had promised not to criticize the rules of the Senate but he made it look as though he intended to enforce them...
With the blight of the hour examination hanging heavy over Cambridge and the coming of a few warm days to make its inhabitants begin to count the weeks to June, the Vagabond began to yield to the call of the travel-book. For a wandering spirit like his, the confines of Cambridge are at times too narrow and when with a magic carpet made of a few postage stamps he can secure free passage to any part of the globe there are few better preventives for spring fever...
...soon as he began to speak, his hearers were impressed with the sincerity which he radiated. He confessed that he was frankly envious of the students at Harvard, ahead of whom lay all life's opportunities, for whom foundations are here being laid to help them build beautiful palaces, instead of mud huts...
...great Evangelists of the world, Gipsy Smith was born in England 66 years ago. He began preaching immediately after his conversion in 1876, although he could neither read nor write; and it was then that he began his practice, which he has followed to the present day, of singing hymns to his audience when his vocabulary failed. When the Great War broke out, he tried to enlist, but his age disqualified him. He served as a minister, however, with the British Y. M. C. A. in 1916, 1917, and 1918, and for his work on the battlefields, he received...