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...time the Senate convened at noon that day hundreds of visitors had been turned away from its jam-packed galleries. Hearstling Kennedy had a good seat in the Vice President's row. Installed in the Press Gallery were visiting Hearst executives, whence they were free to descend to the lobby, interview Senators-for news purposes only...
...facing the question of Language Requirements during the next few weeks, the Faculty Council is forced to decide whether the University will descend to culturally-low standards of inferior schools, or if it will remain as one of the strong-holds of liberal arts education in the United States...
Last summer's flight, according to Captain Stevens, was a successful, although perilous one, which ended when the gas bag exploded and the men were forced to descend in parachutes. The balloon was launched at Rapid City, South Dakota, and during the flight traveled 300 miles to Heldredge, Nebraska...
...Restored; and from the White Russians, the Order of the Compassionate Heart. His pronouncements, issued with passionate conviction, are oratorical. He boasts that only three Senators and three Representatives have been in Congress before his day, that by a wave of his hand thousands of telegrams of protest will descend on the Congressional desk that dares oppose the Legion. These, like many of his assertions, are ritualistic rather than literal truths...
...others climbed up into the official car, to be photographed with Franklin Roosevelt when he emerged on the rear platform to descend by the gangplank. Louis Howe was not in the photographs but he was in the car to ride back to the White House with the President...