Word: h
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover accepted the resignation of David H. Blair of North Carolina as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. ¶ For the first time since Calvin Coolidge Jr., playing upon them, developed a heel blister which went into a fatal infection in 1924, tennis was played last week upon the White House courts. Players: Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary of State Francis White, White House Physician Joel T. Boone, Director Leo S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union. President Hoover does not play tennis...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week asked President Hoover to name a Negro to his forthcoming law enforcement commission. Suggested names: Boston's William H. Lewis, Cleveland's Perry E. Davis, Washington's Municipal Judge James A. Cobb. The President was told that Negroes want an opportunity to disprove the charge that blackamoor drinking habits make it necessary for the South to uphold prohibition...
...near upset the captain's gig, of which I was coxswain, by his skylarking! Look, he gave me his picture in an admiral's uniform." George V, still mindful of the fact that he was eleven years at sea with the Royal Navy, and once commanded H. M. S. Meiampus, wears his trousers creased down the side, sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear...
...infield D. F. Davis '30, K. J. Des Roches '31, T. G. O'Neill '30, and H. L. Huxtable '30 form a combination that, except for a little weakness at the plate, almost comes up to the first team infield. K. W. Crotty '30, G. A. Donaldson '31 and C. P. Atherton ocC form the outfield which Coach Kelleher expects to use in coming games...
...moundsman, but R. R. Ketchum '29 seems to have the edge. S. L. Batchelder '31 or J. D. Dudley '31 will be on the receiving end. The Crimson mentor, in an endeavor to obtain greater batting power, will make a wholesale shift in his choice of outfielders. B. H. Bassett '31 will be the only outfielder to retain his berth A. G. Whitney '29, letterman from last year, will make his initial start of this year, when he takes up his post again in leftfield. T. W. Gilligan '31, on the strength of his showing in the Columbia game, when...