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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School four years later. At 24 he began to practise law at Fitchburg. At 27, as a "common people's" Democrat, he was sent by a hidebound Republican district in Worcester to represent it at the State House in Boston. He was Massachusetts' Lieutenant-Governor- the first Democratic one in 70 years-in 1913 and its Governor in 1914 & 1915. In 1918 he was elected to the U.S. Senate...
...game of golf, sneaks off from his Long Island estate to New Hampshire or elsewhere to fish at the slightest provocation. For 13 years he was editor of his father's World's Work. From Canada. Regretfully last week President Hoover accepted the resignation of William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada. Minister Phillips' excuse was better than most: to bring up his children in the U. S. Twenty-six years in foreign service had made him one of the State Department's most valued diplomats. He had served as Undersecretary of State under Charles...
...first outward sign of what the President had done was three figures leaving a private door of the Treasury Department early in the morning. A thick grey mist enfolded them as they entered the ceremonial East Gate of the White House grounds. Walking through the rolling South Grounds, they skirted the back of the White House and entered the executive offices by a rear door used only by the President himself. It was 8:45 a. m. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon?for he was one of the three?removed his coat without aid (none of the White House staff...
...Booth, Yale's dynamic miracle man who, in his first year of college football, has had as much publicity as Red Grange ever had. Last year he captained his Freshman football, basketball, and baseball teams and he bids fair to be Yale's best athlete in more than a decade. According to pregame predictions the balance of the game rests in his hands; if he gets loose, Yale will win; if Harvard holds him, the Crimson banners will wave above the Blue...
...McLennan, flashy Sophomore back who last Saturday vaulted to fame when, subbing for Booth, he ran wild against the Princeton Tiger and sent him back thinking that Booth played anyway. He scored Yale's first touchdown practically singlehanded when he carried the ball 11 successive times until he finally scored, covering 68 yards in the precess...