Word: browns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general and the 18th Amendment in particular, Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin resigned as New York's Republican National Committeewoman. Her reason: "I want to devote my untrammeled efforts toward working for a change in the Prohibition law." Her friends awaited developments, well knowing that the slim, smiling, brown-eyed wife of Manhattan Banker Sabin did not drop, without finishing, what she took up. Last week came some developments...
Balance of Power. As a result of the ballot, grey-haired, brown-mustached James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Laborites, seemed likely to become a minority Prime Minister again. As during his first term (January-November 1924) the votes necessary for him to obtain a majority over the Conservatives on important party legislation lay in the control of that most professional political practitioner, bob-haired David Lloyd George. As before, Liberal Lloyd George could combine with whatever side he chose until it suited him to oppose the government on a confidence vote. Then another general election would be required...
...Brown University last week the annual necktie parade of freshmen ended with eight men in jail, 21 injured, two shot. Yale freshmen set fire to the august Yale fence, broke campus lights, tore down a locked gate which barred exit to the street, yanked trolleys from poles, heckled policemen. Iowa University students shied eggs at the home of Paul E. Belting, director of athletics, whom they held responsible for their removal from...
...Brown's riot, the worst of the three, came the evening of a day on which venerable Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce had made a last appearance in chapel to announce his retirement after 30 years as Brown President.* Clad in pajamas, the freshmen assembled to burn their class neckties and march down College Hill through the trolley tunnel to the centre of Providence. Contrary to tradition, the tunnel was guarded by police, entrance therein refused. Came the first fight...
...seating of the University eight may be regarded as definite but Coach Brown has intimated that the near future may find one more change in the jayvee boat. Just what shift would be made he would not indicate, but it seems likely that some member of the third crew which is due here soon may find a berth in the second crew...