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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Napoleon was preparing to invade England; and the French Assembly was reported to have declared that England could not cope single-handed with the armies of the Tricolor. In one of his most elaborate and brilliant drawings, Gillray shows the thick-set Napoleon urging his fleet on; the chief interest, however, lies in the different reactions seen in the faces of the onlookers in England--Sheridan making a dramatic speech, and Fox hiding behind...
...against commissioning professional prohibitors to make investigations. Said Mr. Strawn: "Prohibition . . . cannot be enforced by making more drastic laws such as the Jones Act. The opinion of the American people must support the law. . . . How this can be brought about is hard to say." Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem of law enforcement. Long has the Chief Justice been troubled by the decline of criminal justice. Having set his own high court at the Capitol in spick-and-span order, he was ready...
Cautious to avoid political burns, President Hoover last week dipped into the seething caldron of ambitions which Washington has lately become, and flipped out several well-done new appointees. Chief of these were...
...business and not a sport, spring practice appears as a dangerous extension of the game. But its principle is the same as that of fall rowing, fall baseball, or fall track. Whether its work is light or heavy, it is at best only a conditioning process. But its chief justification is the chance it affords the dub to play with the University squad under University coaches. The numbers of men who report for spring practice, and who develop often into players of ability bear testimony to the value of the informal conduct of a sport apart from the hurry...
...looks tome, said Mr. Kent 'like a misunderstanding by Colonel William Marcus of the exact provisions for the awarding of these prizes. Separate prizes were awarded for typography, display-line writing etc. This prize was awarded for 'pictorial illustration as the chief means of conveying its message. I am ready to offer the original sketch for the advertisement in question to show that no changes were made by any of Marcus's advertising men. The conception and the execution of this picture were entirely my own. Did Mr. Bok give the awards for business houses or for individual artists...