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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government, I have no special bias in favor of any party, nor am I any particular defender of Senator Smoot. I was, however, present at this meeting during the mayoralty campaign of 1927, at what was then the Metropolitan Opera House. This Republican mass meeting occurred near the close of a campaign notable chiefly for its utter lack of observance of the ordinary decencies of a campaign. Candidates were referred to as four-flushers, blatherskites, big-nothings, stuffed shirts, jelly-fishes, etc. A committee of supporters of him to whom you very appropriately refer as "Senator-suspect" from Pennsylvania called...
Matheson. A bright sun was shining across Biscayne Bay in Florida one day last February as William John Matheson, retired chemical tycoon, sat on his Coconut Grove porch and watched one of his white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...
Chairman Loudon of the Commission introduced still another plan by reading a letter signed "Clifford Harmon, President of the International League of Aviators." Mr. Harmon was present to hear his letter read. He flushed very red when Baron Cushendun observed at the close of the reading: "I know nothing about the gentleman who wrote the letter, but everybody knows there are organizations with high sounding titles which, it is possible, consist of an office on the fifth floor and a letterhead. I think the letter itself of no value, but even if it were valuable I believe it very improper...
...regard to these contests. As the Dean's Office does not allow the dance to be held during the middle of the week, Friday is the only permissible day on which it may take place. Also the Dean's Office does not permit it to occur after the close of the respective seasons, because it would come during Final Examinations. I should be glad total with anyone who has a suggestion as to a more favorable date. Charles C. Cunningham. Chairman of the Jubilee Commttee...
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