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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the next President of the U. S. was chosen by electors voting in each state capital. The electors constituted the Electoral College, as designated by the people on Nov. 6. In 40 states they voted for Herbert Clark Hoover, in eight states for Alfred Emanuel Smith. Thus was Mr. Hoover constitutionally elected, Mr. Smith constitutionally defeated. The election does not become official, however, until the ballots are tabulated at a joint session of Congress...
...apparently simple arithmetical problem of computing the proper assignment of a specified number of representatives to the forty-eight states in proportion to their populations was an unsolved problem in Congress for over a hundred years. Up to 1921, no scientific tests of a good apportionment were known; a variety of empirical methods were tried and later discarded, and the decennial debates in the House were often bitter. On one occasion, after a long speech by Daniel Webster, the Senate reversed the action of the House on purely mathematical grounds. If the House is to be kept at its present...
...tank is a submarine-shaped affair 35 feet long and eight in diameter which was constructed to investigate the effect on men of working under increased and decreased pressures and also to try the cure of respiratory diseases by regulated atmospheric changes. It consists of two chambers with a lock between them, and was built for the School at Akron, Ohio, according to plans drawn by A. J. Van Woert of the Engineering School...
That University Hall was once the largest heating plant in the University, that at present the College Yard is catacombed with an extensive series of heating funnels, eight feet wide and eight feet high, and that the Weeks Memorial Bridge was constructed with the principal idea in view of carrying heat conduits to the Business School, are among the interesting facts gathered in a recent survey of Harvard's heating system...
...trim tailored suit, swept with a round-the-world stride through the office, greeted a dozen reporters by their first names and vanished through a far door, leaving a strange quiet 'behind him. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of the World and genius of its flying columns for eight years, was leaving...