Word: elections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sprague, Harold Fowler McCormick. They are businessmen and know the inducements of advertising. Hence in Chicago newspapers have appeared full page advertisements warning of the dangers of sexual promiscuities and of the ravages of venereal diseases, urging the afflicted to hasten to their doctors or to Institute clinics. President-Elect Malcolm La Salle Harris of the American Medical Association has recommended that Chicago take over the Institute as a social activity...
Intimations of trouble came when the Senate Ladies Luncheon Club elected Mrs. Senator Moses of New Hampshire to succeed Mrs. Vice President Dawes as their chief, instead of Mr. Gann's wife who, as sister of the widower Vice President-Elect, had already begun to function as the latter's official hostess (TIME...
...socially elect in the House are likewise few, including Representatives Aldrich, Bacon, Beck, Fish, (Mrs.) McCormick, (Mrs.) Pratt, Snell, Tilson, Wainwright, Wigglesworth...
Christian Keener ("Red") Cagle, All-American football halfback last year and captain-elect of this year's Army eleven, went to Manhattan last week with a group of fellow cadets on an "educational trip." ' Official goal: American Museum of Natural History, wondrous home of dried marvels. After that the West Pointers had freedom until 11:45 p. m. Hero Cagle broke away, accompanied by a cadet assigned to guard him. Eluding the guard, he rushed into the foggy night, arrived in West Point several hours late. Punishment (his second within three months for the same offense); six demerits...
...considered a "contract." By learning their lessons, the children fulfill their contracts, achieve a sense of responsibility, advance toward their looming citizenship with proper civic consciousness. In the Montezuma Mountain School for Boys, Los Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor, a police commissioner, a labor commissioner. Violators of community regulations are turned over by the police to the labor commissioner who makes them work. Thus, since Montezuma, like all schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark...