Word: clark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...material this year is only average," said Clark Hodder '25, Freshman hockey coach, "but I will be able to tell better after next Tuesday's game...
...their mark on U. S. history much more indelibly than President Polk. As Speaker- the title is derived from the ancient custom of the House of Commons which, voteless, sent a member to the King to speak for them-men like Henry Clay, James G. Elaine, Joseph Cannon, Champ Clark and Nicholas Longworth have used their authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure to the Senate of John Nance Garner the speakership has suffered a woeful decline in prestige. Old Henry T. Rainey...
...Bankheads. Speaker Bankhead returned to Washington better equipped than he was last year for the rigors of a job that can be as rigorous as any in the land. Speaker Bankhead's hobby is collecting gavels used by his predecessors, of which he has six, belonging to Speakers Clark, Gillett, Longworth, Garner, Rainey, Byrns. Although his own is the smallest of the lot, Administration leaders were hoping last week that it would not prove the least effective...
...last week stenographers and visitors in the office of Cook County Clerk Michael J. Flynn, who issues Chicago's marriage licenses, peered excitedly at a window across grimy North Clark Street where shone a bright new sign. Advertising the services of a justice of the peace, an office which Chicago discontinued in 1905, it puzzled the county clerk's assistants until reporters crossed the street to find behind the window, complacently waiting for business, David R. Mandell, this year elected justice of the peace in the proletarian Cook County suburb of Berwyn. A lawyer by profession, plump...
Sitting on a hosiery patent infringement suit, Bachelor-Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds asked: "What does 'full-fashioned' mean?" Answered Benedict-Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts: "It means that a stocking is made to fit the contours...