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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years ago, when the Woman Suffrage Amendment was adopted, many of its supporters expected it to "purify" politics. Few of them expected it to produce such results as it did last week. Women Democrats began to pour into the capital by bus, train, car, plane. Their opening meeting, scheduled to be held at the Washington Hotel, was shifted to the Riverside Stadium. Estimated attendance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Voters and Party Workers | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Jaako Mikkola's cohorts embarked by bus yesterday afternoon Hanoverbound for a dual meet with the Indiana. Because of divisionals many of the seventeen Seniors on the squad will be unable to make the trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACKMEN GO TO HANOVER FOR MEET WITH INDIANS | 5/4/1940 | See Source »

...dues, $9.00 for use of uniform, and another $5.00 as a deposit against fines and incidentals. The return for this sum and six hours of practice a week was free admission to the football games, a few hockey and basketball matches, an H.A.A.-sponsored trip to Princeton by bus and second-rate boat, a watch fob at the annual banquet (for which Johnny shelled out another $2.90). Many of his classmates, top-notch musicians but scholarship men, can't afford the money in addition to the time. Only the prospect of a Chicago trip--and it was finally called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN | 5/4/1940 | See Source »

Harvey Love's Yardling eight met up with the best Engineer crew in many years, and nearly received an upset that would have dimmed the recent brilliant Freshman record. Tech caught them in the middle of the race, went a little ahead at the three-quarters. But Bus Curwen upped the stroke a trifle to a 36 at the bridge, and very slowly drew off to finish half a length away from fighting M.I.T...

Author: By Paul C. Sheeline and William W. Tyng, S | Title: Crimson Fleet Lives Up to Hopes by Sweeping Charles to Win Rowe Cup | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...clock the regatta resumes, with Harvey Love's Yardling contingent rowing the Henley distance against B.U. and Tech. Not yet as strong nor as smooth as last year's undefeated Freshman eight, the '43 boat, paced by Bus Curwen, faces even less experienced oarsmen. They should win without too much difficulty, although the Engineers have one of the best first-year outfits ever. The B.U. Freshman boat is filled with good material, but still needs many more miles of rowing before it will be a threat...

Author: By Paul C. Sheeline, | Title: Five Crimson Eights to Face Syracuse, M.I.T. and B.U. in Rowe Cup Regatta | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

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