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...Court Building will be the scene of the Class Day exercises which begin at 11:30 o'clock. These include the Class Oration, Poem, and Ode. Following lunch, the huge parade of graduates to the Stadium will take place. There the Ivy Oration is to be delivered, and the Confetti Battle held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE AND SENIOR ACTIVITIES FEATURE OF COMMENCEMENT PLANS | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

...Member of one of the section's largest families. Sheriff Middleton once had a distant cousin named Elman Middleton who was prosecuting attorney of Harlan County and started a crusade for miners' rights. Two years ago Cousin Elman stepped on his automobile starter, went up in a confetti of steel, flesh and dynamite. Since 1934, said the sheriff, he had appointed 379 deputies, of whom only a half-dozen or so were paid by the county. The rest were hired by the operators as "special guards." Senator La Follette produced an investigators' report which showed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Kentucky Feudalism | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...tentative schedule has been drawn up for the four days from June 21 to 24. It will comprise a 1912 show, dinners, dancing, outings, the "Pops" concert, confetti battle, and commencement exercise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plans for Reunion of Class of 1912 Are Already Under Way | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...State Chairman Earl Warren arose to introduce Nominee Landon, who had not yet appeared. Spotlights picked out a distant gate, a band struck up Oh! Susanna, and into the stadium burst Alf Landon, upright in the back seat of an open car, waving his hat, grimacing under showers of confetti which pelted him as he circled the running track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Last Lap | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...parade will reform after the confetti is all thrown away to march to the baseball stands to see the second in the Harvard-yale series, the first of which was played yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Day Exercises Today Mark Climax of Commencement Week | 6/17/1936 | See Source »

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