Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SMITH Hartford, Conn...
...proposed S-4 Investigating Commission scarcely transcended a private wrangel among four New York members, the Messrs. La Guardia, Griffin, O'Connor and Black. Bulky, blue jowled Major La Guardia, irregular Republican, had stolen a march on his Democratic col leagues by riding from New London, Conn., to Boston in the Submarine S-8. He had returned full of submarine lore, a loud champion of the Navy. "Was it because they treated him so nicely?" sneered Mr. Griffin, who rather fancies his own knowledge of submarines. "Are not the members of this caste [i. e. the Navy...
Critic Silenced. Purple with cold, humble in spirit, Major Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York, one of the most vociferous orators in the U. S. House of Representatives, arrived at Boston. The Navy had given him a ride around Cape Cod from New London, Conn., in the S-8 which made a dive on the way. Major La Guardia, gallant aviator, had never before sailed in a submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building...
...Haven, Conn., Agnes Maude Royden committed a few witticisms directed, in large part, not at her U. S. detractors but at the inhabitants of England. She said: "It is as easy for an Englishman to say something nice as it is for him to have a tooth pulled. ... In America, candidates 'run' for office, in England they 'stand.' . . . For my part, I pledge myself to return to England and to try to interpret the vast enterprises of your great empire, for that is what you are building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built...
Publication of the University Register this year will have to be indefinitely postponed or totally abandoned, it was announced last night by its editor, following receipt of information from New Haven, Conn., of the destruction of all type by the recent fire in the Van Dyke Printing Company, publishers of the projected Register. Because of the late hour at which the news was received, the editors were unable to consult with the Student Council as to what course will be pursued...