Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Nance Garner may very possibly be such a candidate. His friends say he seeks only to save the common people's party from perdition in loose liberalism, and that, while receptive, he is unselfish, unconcerned about becoming President. His enemies say that, having long bided his time, this 70-year-old sagebrush poker-player at last holds the makings of a royal flush and can scarcely contain himself when he looks at the pot he might...
...rebel" forces had been cleared out of the centre of Madrid, but they were still said to be holding important outskirts with 30,000 men. Furthermore, aid to them was on its way from other fronts. The chances were that the Loyalist forces, within plain view of their common enemies, would fight each other until the Franco Army, last week more a spectator than a fighting force, stepped in and cleaned them...
...Consultation Hours held in Tutor's Common Room...
...declared that there had been no good tea in America since the Boston Tea Party, defended the affirmative of the subject, "Resolved: That the British Empire must disintegrate," against a Debating Council team composed of Henry D. Oyen '41 and James J. Pattee '41 in the Adams House Common Room Saturday night...
Eight Juniors were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at a meeting held in the Lowell House Common Room. This was the first of three elections to the society for the Class of 1940, the next vote coming in November when 16 more men will be made members...