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Shipstead's Oath. So narrow seemed the margin of votes that Senate Clerk John C. Crockett was despatched to Baltimore, there to establish a precedent by swearing in a Senator for the first time outside the Senate Chamber. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite, had been ill with influenza and complications since before March 4. He lay in a hospital bed in Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana...
...alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...
...qualified as sharps shooters are: P. R. Lincoln '30, Robert Cushman '30, J. S. Lewis '29, A. H. Donaghey '30, R. D. Fielding '30, C. W. Schaubs '29, J. A. Crockett '30, G. D. Roach '30, L. A. Du Recher '30, L. T. Grimm '39, P. A. Newsome...
...Joseph J. Muir, Senate chaplain, gave the blessing. Deep-voiced John C. Crockett, reading clerk, was toastmaster. James D. Preston, genial superintendent the Senate press gallery, announced the arrival of the world's largest underslung pipe, six feet long, made of pasteboard. "What mal it smell so bad?" chirped an insolent page. Investigations reveal a copy of the "Senate Rules with Dawes' Amendments" (the amendments shot full of holes). From the bowl of the pasteboard pipe other gifts for the Vice President emanated...
...celebrated David Crockett chose for his motto the now familiar maxim; be sure you are right, then go ahead. And despite its triteness this slogan might well adorn the banners of educational reformers. But the question of just what is right is distressingly difficult. As usual the most apparent aspects of the problem have been attacked first, with the result that evils of the American educational system have been attributed almost solely to defects in the methods of collegiate instruction. Dean West of the Princeton Graduate College has, however, broached a problem which seems to pierce directly to the heart...