Word: brackett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Abbott, J. Q. Adams, R. C. Aldrich, J. D. Allen, Jr., Stuyvesant Barry, M. S. Beeler, E. I., Belisle, A. R. Belliveau, J. A. Blanchard, 2nd, J. R. Bland, T. H. Brackett, W. L. Breese, D. L. Charlton, David Cheever, Jr., J. L. Clarke, David Cobb, B. D. Crauage, P. S. Dalton, Jr., C. D. Dillon, S. P. Duggan...
...Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton public school children will get no holiday when it rains. . . . Among the Cyr.us Fogg Brackett lecturers this year at Princeton University will be Fred Wesley Sargent, president of Chicago & North Western Railway; Jesse Isidor Straus, president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store) ; Paul Shoup; president of Southern Pacific Rail way; Newcomb Carlton. president of Western Union Telegraph...
...Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902) of Maine was twice Speaker of the House: 1889-91 and 1895-99. Strong of will, he, with William McKinley and Joseph Gurney Cannon, framed new parliamentary rules which provided that every Representative must vote, that members present but not voting could be counted for a quorum, that no dilatory or filibustering motion be entertained by the Speaker. Attacked as a "Tsar," he used his rules to rush through the House the McKinley (1890) and the Dingley (1897) tariff bills...
...assistant managership goes to Stuyvesant Barry '31, of Orange, N. J., also a graduate of St. Paul's Truman Hicks Brackett '31, of Jamaica Plain, who went to the Browne and Nichols School, will be 1931 cross country manager next fall, and Oliver Lawrence Garrison Elder '31, of St. Elmo, Tenn., an alumnus of St. Mark's School, is the interdormitory manager...
Book Reviews: "The Golden Day," by Lewis Mumford, reviewed by V. W. Brooks: "Eight O'clock Chapel," by C. H. Patton and W. T. Fields, reviewed by J. R. Brackett: "Main Currents of American Thought" by V. L. Parrington, reviewed by Stanley Williams: "A New Englander in Japan: Dauiel Crosby Greene," by E. B. Greene, reviewed by E. A. Christie: "The Rise of American Civilization," by C. A. Beard and Marry R. Beard reviewed by S. E. Morison: "The Harvest of a Quiet Life," by Odell Shepard, reviewed by Lawrence Mayo...