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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defeated then by 4,050 votes, he was chosen to serve out the unexpired term of Florida's late Senator Duncan U. Fletcher in 1936. In Washington, Claude Pepper distinguished himself by a strict adherence to all policies and projects suggested by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A stocky, black-haired young man, whose earnest, grey-eyed face is disfigured by pockmarks, he speaks with more sincerity than eloquence, convinces his listeners of his utter honesty when he says: "It is time someone in authority got in to do some fighting for the poor white man in the South. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Presiding at the annual dinner of the Phillips Brooks House Association last night, C. Colton Daughaday '38 announced that James H. Gilbert '40 and Thomas H. E. Quimby '40 had been chosen to do Grenfell Mission work in Labrador this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phillips Brooks House Announces Grenfell Workers | 4/28/1938 | See Source »

...alternating high and low hurdle shuttle relay will as last year be the principal feature of the afternoon. Imported from Pennsylvania last year the race is run on the grass in the middle of the stadium. The Harvard quartet will be chosen from Mason Fernald, Sherman Hoar, John Johanson, John Sparrow, and Bill Lavorack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Season Previews Will Be Made in Relays at Stadium | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

...home team will oppose the proposition: "Resolved, That it is the moral obligation of every American citizen to fight in any war in which the United States may become involved, if called upon." The New Haven group will up hold the question. All men chosen for the regular teams will be awarded Coolidge Prize Medals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '41 ORATORS LOSE IN ROUND - ROBIN DEBATE | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

James A. Rousmaniere '40 and John N. Fulham were chosen to represent the University this week-end after three races in a stiff breeze which provided a test for skippers and crews. The Club used dinghies borrowed from the M.I.T. Sailing Association for the occasion, but hopes to have boats of its own by next week, purchased with funds from the dues of its 30 members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YACHT CLUB SKIPPERS STAGE FIRST REGATTA | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

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