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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harbor last week as the Dollar liner President Pierce glided in through the Golden Gate from the Orient. Whistles screamed. Bands blared. Flags flew. Warped into Pier 44, she was quickly boarded by octogenarian Shipowner Robert Dollar who hurried about looking for an erect, spare, tropic-tanned man. He found him on deck, carrying a tightly rolled silk umbrella, and gave him a tremendous handshake which carried with it the welcome of the whole U.S. The browned voyager was none other than Henry Lewis Stimson, returning from the post of Governor-General of the Philippines to become number...
...spots were found: 1) an 18-mile stretch of the Rapidan River in Shenandoah National Park, 100 miles west by south of Washington, upon which a presidential fishing lease was arranged; 2) a tract of 1,500 acres known as Catoctin Manor, 50 miles north of Washington, watered by Hunting Creek. This tract (but not the Manor House) was purchased in the name of Lawrence Richey. A rustic cabin will be built to receive President Hoover and his intimates...
Approximately 20 coaches of New England universities and preparatory schools have signified their intention of attending today's basketball conference at the Harvard Club, Boston. At the conference, called on the initiative of H. W. Clark '23, Assistant Director of Athletics, it is hoped that a solution will be found to the refereeing problem which is facing the New England coaches at present...
...time, opportunity was furnished through the committee to all Freshmen, of obtaining information on their contemplated fields of concentration from Seniors and Juniors concentrating in the different fields. Thirty-five upperclassmen were appointed, who held office hours for all Freshmen who cared to see them, but the experiment was found to be not a success and will accordingly be discontinued...
...recognition) is doubtful to me. It might with more justification be maintained that they bring about a rigid bureaucratization of the social strata, which elsewhere are left more or less to their own council and initiative. To some extent this tendency to governmentalize the 'interest groups' is to be found in all modern states. But what the Italian experiment of forcing this development for purposes of general representation certainly does bring about is a rather complete elimination of parliamentary processes. For such organizations, resting upon the interest groups, effectively thwarts the organization of political parties...