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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time. But in your footnote you came far short of the fact in giving the number of forest fires in the U. S. last year. Not 6,921 fires, but some 177,000 fires occurred during 1928. . . . C. E. RANDALL Forest Service U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington, D...
...exclaimed: "I think it is so appropriate to have Girl Scouts associated with an exhibition of antique furniture." The antiques - $2,000,000 worth of them including Gilbert Stuart paintings, Queen Anne chairs, a Chippendale clock, a Goddard block front desk - had been lent by people like Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan, Henry F. du Pont, Walter Jennings. Admissions were charged for the benefit of a $3,000,000 Girl Scout fund which is to be raised in the next five years. Mrs. Hoover brought news from Washington that the American Relief Administration was going...
When these statements appeared in the press, newsgatherers at once sought to question Cary Travers Grayson M. D., the naval physician whom Woodrow Wilson raised to a Rear-Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...
Nine lettermen appear on the starting University lineup, Gilligan and Levin being the two who have not as yet won the major award. Captain Barrett, Trainer, B. H. Ticknor, Douglas, Putnam, and Harper all answered the opening whistle last fall, while Gilligan, O'Connell, W. D. Ticknor, and Huguley saw action before the end of the afternoon. Coach Horween's entire squad, with the exception of Davis and Greeley, is ready for service today and all will most probably get into the game...
...giving back to the players the real supervision of the games I cannot predict, but I have no question at all that the change will occur. There has for a long time been at Yale a large body of opinion strongly favorable to this procedure and Mr. T. A. D. Jones, who was for many years the coach of the Yale football teams, is now writing a series of articles for one of the metropolitan papers in which he is discussing sympathetically this program...