Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eager for unity, the convention sent Lundeberg a boatload of delegates bearing olive branches. At the hall where S. U. P. was holding its weekly meeting, they found the Norse giant himself, blocking the door. Fists clenched, he thundered at Revels Cayton, author of the unity proposal, denounced him as fink and traitor. Of the secessionists only the repentant firemen returned to the federation fold. This week Lundeberg announced worse news for the Maritime Federation: His sailors had now chosen A. F. of L. by a 2-1 vote, were ready to join A. F. of L.'s Maritime...
Scheduled to pitch was Johnny Vander Meer, the Reds' rookie southpaw, who had pitched himself into baseball's Hall of Fame four days before when he won a no-hit, no-run game against the Boston Bees in Cincinnati. Practically the whole of Midland Park, N. J. (his home town) was in the stands to greet him. Dodger Pitcher Max Butcher threw the first ball, and the fans settled in their seats...
Press reports that 62 servants had been dismissed from Whitemarsh Hall, mogul-mansion (272 rooms) of the late, drum-beating Philadelphia financier, Edward T. Stotesbury, brought a disdainful disclaimer from stately Mrs. Stotesbury: Said she: "I personally have not discharged any one, nor do I intend to. The responsibility is in the hands of my co-executors...
...America this month. They leave behind them tomorrow a few names already famous, many more destined to become famous in the future, some who will be failures, a sprinkling of ditch-diggers-to-be. In return for four years here they have left behind several thousand dollars at Lehman Hall, a few really grand moments which the newspapers, the public, and their fellows have sometimes made grander, sometimes ignored. And now, Harvard--a hundred assorted buildings, a thousand heterogeneous individuals on the Faculty, countless millions of ideas in limbo and ideas in concrete--you, Harvard, they leave behind...
Seniors will receive their diplomas in the main corridor of Sever Hall this year immediately after the Commencement exercises. This is a change from the custom of many years to distribute the diplomas at Memorial Hall, and is caused by the fact that the Class of 1913 will hold its Commenceday day spread in Memorial Hall rather than in the Yard...