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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Additional nominations may be added by petition. The list must contain 25 names and be handed in at 19 Massachusetts Hall by Friday. The voting will take place on Tuesday...
...From the American Council of Learned Societies, President Coolidge received a first volume of the new, exhaustive Dictionary of American Biography, which will contain 20 volumes when completed. The first volume contained no Coolidges, going only from "Abbe" to "Barrymore." Subsequent volumes will be published at the rate of three per year, but President Coolidge will not live to read about himself in the Dictionary of American Biography. No person or personnage is given space therein until he is dead...
...lege three years later, the same year that President Coolidge was graduated cum laude. He has published a biography of Stephen A. Douglas, has delved deeply in to early Americana. At Yale, he was Larned Professor of American History. Since 1926 he has edited his Dictionary. The Dictionary will contain in 20 volumes the names of all persons who have made important contributions to American life. No living persons will be mentioned and no persons who "have not lived in the territory now known as the United States." Thus foreigners like the Revolutionary Marquis de La Fayette will undoubtedly find...
...theorists and conjecturers wondered how the Republican South would be recognized, what new Californians might be taken to Washington, whether Mrs. Willebrandt would get her long-sought judgeship, etc., etc. Upon two basic matters, however, observers were satisfied-that the major appointments would contain a minimum of politics, a maximum of fitness; and that many an oldtime Hoover man would be recalled...
...House. Aside from the prospect that the Republican majority manipulated by Wet Speaker Nicholas Longworth and Leader John Q. Tilson will be bigger than ever, it was noted that the House of Representatives in the next Congress will include a Negro, Oscar De Priest of Chicago. Also, it will contain seven women, four who were re-elected and three Ruths (see p. 11). It will also have a newspaperman, Louis Ludlow, of Indianapolis, onetime Washington correspondent, but there will be no Socialist since Wisconsin's Berger was defeated...