Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge Special got up steam. Behind it, when it started, would lie a Capital devoid of newsful Governmental activity save for the Federal Trade Commission's lively but long-drawn investigation of the Power Trust...
...Drawn on by this melodious invitation, a multitude of musical merchants gathered last week in Manhattan, at the comfortable Commodore. They wished to discuss business, the business of marketing musical instruments, from morning to noon and to amuse themselves throughout the rest of the day. Some of their frivolities were to be of a conventional nature. They were instructed thus-"As to entertainment, DON'T FORGET Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, in line ... for president, will be principal speaker at the annual banquet. You will have the pleasure of hearing Professor John Erskine, president of the Juilliard School...
Among the materials drawn on by Professor S. E. Morison '08 in preparing an historical outline of Harvard for the booklet on Harvard history and traditions, now being published by the CRIMSON for distribution to next year's Freshman class, is a half sheet of hitherto unpublished notes for an address of President Eliot. The notes which are now preserved in manuscript form in Widener library are evidently a rough summary of points which President Eliot intended to bring out in an impending talk to some group of students. They give in concise form the characteristics which he thought most...
...beleaguered patrolmen scored a sudden and overwhelming victory at this point by calling in reserves from the suburbs and charging the mob with drawn night-sticks. When the smoke had cleared, six students were on the inside looking out, with more arrests in prospect...
...conflicting plans of Flood Control, were drawn by the Mississippi River Commission (an interstate body) and the U. S. Army engineers, respectively. The chiefs of these two bodies were put on the new U. S. Flood Control Commission. For the third member, President Coolidge sought a civilian of unquestioned neutrality. He found and named him in Carleton W. Sturtevant, aged 64, a native of Ohio, trained in Missouri, now living in the Bronx, N. Y. A lifelong dredger of rivers, Engineer Sturtevant has worked on the Mississippi, St. Lawrence, Hudson...