Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President was told that the very life-breath of Republicanism in Kentucky depended upon the Lucas appointment as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. President Hoover reluctantly acquiesced. Good man though Kentucky's Lucas might prove to be, he did not, at face value, represent the big-bore, experienced businessman that had been prescribed by Treasury chiefs and first-class Senators to administer the vital tax-collecting branch of the Government...
Coach Mitchell will send Howard Whitmore '29, the dean of Harvard pitchers, to face the Crusader sluggers. Whitmore has never before pitched a Holy Cross game, but it seems probable that he will get the mound call again next Saturday, when the Crusaders come to Soldiers Field for the second and last clash of the series...
...problems which face the world today are no less threatening, but their threat is veiled by an improved position throughout Europe, balanced budgets and stabilized currencies. It seems that the lesson of the post-war period has not been thoroughly learned: that confidence, and confidence along, seems to be the great solvent. With confidence and any degree of good management the government can be saved, he currency stabilized, any near-miracle worked; without confidence almost any cataclysm seems possible, despite the best efforts of statesmen...
...educated in South Carolina, flung his religious ardor into Methodism, progressed miraculously into free thought, attained at last an understanding of his Jewishness. Immersed for seven years in the cause of Zionism, he resumes in Mid-Channel the intimate personal chronicle of himself as a Jew wandering over the face of Europe...
...Shields's chins quivered with emotion when he addressed the delegates. The majority cheered him, inferentially hissing his enemy, Dr. Harry Wayman, expelled President of Des Moines University, whose face is infinitely sad and who last week said: "If it were possible to banish Dr. Shields to some island under the sea. a great step would be taken in the interest of humanity but great injustice would be done to the fish of the sea." The Shields-Wayman controversy which everybody discussed at the Buffalo convention had reached its high point the week prior in a student...