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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delightful these concerts that belong to the University alone. When the Yard has not long been green, and the first truly warm nights of spring have come, then the Glee Club sings to the sons of Harvard scattered over the grass beneath the elms until they too mount the broad steps and join in the full throated chorus of "Fair Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SONG RESUNG | 5/15/1928 | See Source »

...duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis (not nearly so long as the land elephant's), wiry whiskers, hind limbs so rudimentary as to look like a big, muscular tail; broad, flat, forward flippers for swimming and spanking its young. While President Coolidge watched, John Ringling's sea elephant gladly devoured 50 Ibs. of fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Thus, the Chancellor defended his Budget with spirit, for some hours, careless or unconscious of his rising fever. Suddenly, however, he was seen to sway, and then to hurry from the House. A moment later he sped by motor up broad Whitehall to his nearby official residence at No. 11 Downing Street-next door to famed "No. 10," the residence of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Soon Mr. Churchill was tucked into bed. A doctor who could not presume to say I-told-you-so declared firmly that Chancellor Churchill had a seemingly not dangerous case of influenza but must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill Into Bed | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...crowd yelled as Scuttle, the King's three-year-old filly, worked up smoothly to pass Lord Dewar's Jurisdiction and win the Thousand Guineas Stakes, worth $5,000 to the winner. Next morning every paper in London printed a picture of the King with a broad smile on his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Drennan Cravath, holder of decorations from the French, Italian and Rumanian Governments for rehabilitation work after the War. Last week he died, of angina pectoris, suddenly at his Manhattan office, just two years to the day after he pried the first brick from the old Mills building on whose Broad Street site the Equitable's new 42-story building now stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Death of Krech | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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