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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already one of the largest early votes ever cast by a Junior Class has been received, and only a few more ballots will make the election valid. The interest shown in the Junior election rivals that which marked the voting of the class of 1928 last week, when a record number of votes were cast by the Sophomores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR BALLOTING CLOSES WITH RECORD VOTE LIKELY | 11/17/1925 | See Source »

...each other. The Republican slogan was "Put Our Ruth Over." She lived in her house on 61st Street, just off Fifth Avenue, but she went all the way over to the little shops on Third Avenue canvassing for votes. Her son came down from Harvard to cast his first vote for her. And she got 10,000 out of about 17,000 votes, running 700 votes ahead of her ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Alderwoman | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...will cast you an iron house, with a cast-iron bathtub upstairs and a cast-iron stove in the kitchen. Within 50 miles of our works, we will erect the whole eleven tons of iron for you at a cost of only ?425 ($2,125). You will find the rooms nine feet high, with the living room, kitchen, larder and coal room on the first floor, and three bedrooms and a bath on the second. Fireplaces and a hot-water heating system are provided. Many of our cast-iron tanks are still in use, unpainted, after 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cast-iron Houses | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

Thus a venture under development since 1912 apparently signalized its successful consummation. Cables report that the "iron house" has been definitely launched in Britain. The new structures are made of large cast plates bolted together and a thin outer coating of cement is applied for "effect" and protection. Bright red tiled roofs and porches of the same color are said to have appealed greatly to the mine laborers for whom the houses have been especially designed. Before drawing up the architectural plans, the miners were canvassed thoroughly to determine what "features" they desired. Replied a large majority of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cast-iron Houses | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

When she was 19 she ran away to join the cast of Reckless Eve when that masterpiece was playing in Little Rock. The Fitches had told her she could take nothing out of their house, so she left wearing two dresses, with her blouse stuffed with trinkets. Reckless Eve got as far as Tulsa where it gasped, flopped twice, and lay still. Mary Lewis gave singing lessons to the soubrets and earned enough to buy a ticket to the Coast. After her season with Christie Comedies, she got an engagement with the Greenwich Village Follies, then with Mr. Ziegfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mary Lewis | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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