Word: generalizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well, now that General Jake Wolters has, as he states, "Cleaned up Borger" (TIME, Nov. 4) it might be pertinent to ask that being so experienced he try his hand on his own home town, Houston, with a public record of more automobile accidents than any town in the United
...another was discovered a wooden key model from which a duplicate of the keeper's key was to be made. In the power-house was unearthed a tomahawk-shaped utensil for short-circuiting all the lights in the old cellblock. Said Warden Lawes: "This was a scheme for a general jail delivery. . . . If it had succeeded we might have another riot like Dannemora...
Quickly to his feet leaped Democratic General Harrison, proposing, as a sort of reprisal, night sessions on the tariff. The Young Turks accepted the challenge, helped to vote three-hour sessions each night, making a ten-and-a-half hour fighting day for the Senate. Never did the tariff war go more briskly. The Young Turks, in the saddle, had a definite program: to keep the Senate in session; to pass the bill by Dec. 1; to keep industrial rates at their present levels. Old Guardsmen fairly panted as farm rates were pegged up so rapidly that even Senate clerks...
...virtuous sayings. It was indeed an unlooked for pleasure to see spectators young and old clapping their hands in high glee in time with the music and stamping heavily on the accented beat. The atmosphere was extremely contagious, and few found it possible to stand aloof from the general merriment...
Building at Yale is keeping pace with educational development in general. The degree of completion ranges all the way from the new Sterling Library, which is now nearly finished, to plans for the housing of about 1,000 undergraduates who are at present but poorly accommodated. While not entering upon the so-called House Plan, as developed at Harvard, still Yale in its new Human Welfare Group is starting an educational and social experiment which may prove to have just as wide reaching effects...