Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...installed an executive in a newly created position of president. The new man is Major Henry Hastings Curran, able lawyer, onetime (1920-21) Borough President of Manhattan, onetime (1923-26) U. S. Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, N. Y. Major Curran will be the lieutenant of Captain William H. Stayton, who remains Chairman of the A. A. P. A. Board of Directors...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin promoted to rank at the tail* of his Cabinet, last week, seven of those "coming" young Conservative M. P.'s who are known in the House of Commons as the "ginger group." Among the promoted only Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, dashing husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners is well known in the U. S. He was stepped up to Financial Secretary of the War Office...
...results of the past spring, when in one afternoon, 13 men had vaulted as high as 13 feet. "Sabin Carr holds the world's record, having cleared the bar at 14 feet. Now that Hoff has joined the professional ranks, there is little chance of the Yale track captain's losing his honors. Barnes, who forced Carr to his record with a vault of 13 feet nine inches, ought not to be very far behind the record-holder. The best men Europe can put against us are Dane, who has done 13 feet, and Reed and Lindblad, who cannot even...
...College, the intercollegiate cross-country indoor and outdoor mile champion, Booth of the Newark Athletic Club, former intercollegiate cross-country title holder, Payne of the University of Pennsylvania, and Kirby of the New York Athletic Club, M. L. Smith of Yale and J. L. Reid '29, Harvard cross-country captain, are other possible starters...
Thomas Edward Farrell '31, of Oswego, New York was elected captain of the Freshman basketball team last night. His election came just after the first year men had played a game with the Cushing Academy team. He prepared at the Oswego High School, where he was a member of the track team, and captain of the basketball team...