Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth time in five years, the Senate passed Senator Norris's common-sensical resolution to amend the Constitution so that Congress, including newly-elected members, would meet on a set date (Jan. 2) each year and remain seated until its business is finished, instead of making new Congressmen wait 13 months to be seated and adjourning on March 4 every other year, as now; also, so that the President would take office Jan. 15 instead of March 4. Last week the House hemmed and hawed as usual over this attack on "lame duck" sessions and modified Senator Norris...
...Philadelphia, the Franklin Fourth Street Bank, and the Philadelphia-Girard National Bank are the largest banking institutions. Last week they announced their intention of merging, to form a bank with resources of $350,000,000. "The consolidation will add largely to the financial prestige of the City and State," explained Chairman of the Executive Committee Joseph Wayne Jr. and President Edward F. Shanbacker...
...greatest of the University's track athletes. Winning his letter in 1908, 1909, and 1910, captaining the team in the latter year, he proved his versatility in both the shot put and the broad jump. One of his most spectacular triumphs was in the thirty-fourth I. C. A. A. A. A. meet held in the Stadium in 1909 when he had to heave the shot 46 feet 6 1-4 inches to defeat W. F. Krueger of Swarthmore and J. J. Horner of Michigan. Horner who finished third is himself one of the spectacular weight men of Michigan track...
Born. To Sergeant Alvin C. York of Tennessee, famed World War hero, a fourth son, Sam Houston York...
This afternoon the team C squash racquetmen will play the Union Boat Club in Boston. This game will be the last of the season for team C, which is tied with the Harvard Club of Boston for fourth position in the state class C interclub tournament...