Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home for lunch one day last week, Sergeant Jurney answered the telephone, heard Mr. MacCracken offer to meet him at the District of Columbia jail at 3:45 that afternoon. Sergeant Jurney was there on the dot, but not Mr. MacCracken. He drove up at 4 p. m., explaining that he had started out without knowing just where the jail was, lost his way. Lugging well-labeled suitcases, he marched inside the dingy red building, was searched and fingerprinted. Past the cell-block where ordinary jailbirds are cooped he was led into the mess hall reserved for "short-termers," then...
Contempt. With little to dramatize in the case, Lawyer Hogan in 1930 failed to persuade a District of Columbia court that the Government should allow Meatpackers Armour and Swift to sell other things besides meat. And the very guile with which he strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous...
...themselves dropped in on a meeting run by the busy, vocal "Social Frontier" professors who come chiefly from Teachers' College, Columbia. This faction, always a power in N. E. A. conventions, had gone to Atlantic City determined to jolt the superintendents out of their customary conservatism. They were holding forth in the Rose Room of the Traymore Hotel...
Harvard has gone-through the season with six victories and only one defeat at the hands of Navy, while the Tigers in four starts, have one defeat chalked up against them from Columbia. The Crimson forces downed Columbia 15-12 earlier this year...
Brown has compiled an enviable record this season, and has in Ken Kennedy one of the finest centers in the East. Although Bill Gray, Harvard's elongated center who has been out for some time with a sprained ankle, returned to the floor against Columbia and tallied eleven points, Coach Fesler will attempt to save him for Yale by starting Graham Spring at center...