Word: fenne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Rosenzweig Arnold, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, died suddenly yesterday as a result of heart failure. Funeral services will be conducted by Dean Sperry and Professor W. W. Fenn in Appleton Chapel tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock...
Sprinting & Horsepower. Sprinters expend 13 horsepower of chemical energy and 3 horsepower of mechanical energy. Rochester's Wallace Osgood Fenn found. They lose some energy because when their feet touch the ground they push themselves back slightly. Wind resistance absorbs some of their energy...
...accordance with the population figures shown by that census. (Bill opponents did most of their talking against the Department of Commerce, arguing that Congress was abrogating a right, a privilege, a duty, in favor of a government department.) Based on a somewhat arithmetical system of "major fractions,"* the Fenn plans provide essentially that the 1930 population will be divided by the number of representatives (435) and the resultant figures taken as the average population of a district. Then the population of each state will be divided by this average district population to get the number of representatives. Thus...
Just as no man would ask special praise for not stealing a chicken, so no Congress man asked a moral accolade for support of the Fenn Bill. Nevertheless, there were, by comparison, some who deserved honor. Thus, honor went to the entire New York delegation for voting for the Fenn Bill even though New York will lose a seat. To the entire Pennsylvania delegation went exactly similar honor. But peculiar honor went to Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt...
...Major Fractions: Fenn Reapportionment will work as follows: The 1930 population will be divided by 435 (number of representatives) giving average population for each congressional district. Each state is granted one representative, in accordance with the Constitution. The average district population for the country is divided into the population of each state, giving the number of whole districts for each state. Then the 387 seats remaining after each state has been allotted one seat are distributed according to these whole districts. After the population of the state is divided by the average district population, there will be a remainder which...