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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protesting against the burdens of taxation, he stated that the officials down at Washington are the best that money can buy. He ended his speech by praising the work of Dean Briggs on the Athletic Committee, and said that he had heard it said authentically that the Dean was the author of the "Uncle Dudley" articles in the "Boston Globe...
...vote was in about a 6-5 proportion. On the same day, Indiana showed its preference for Coolidge over Johnson by a 6-1 ratio. The Republican Utah State Convention gave Coolidge its eleven delegates. Nevada pledged nine delegates. A few more states were yet to be heard from, but as far as the Republicans were concerned, the pre-Convention struggle was surely past with Johnson's debacle in his home state-the state which two years ago he earned by 250,000 votes...
...Garden with one of her favorite roles, Elektra (1909) at the first production of which the composer wanted real live bulls on the stage. Der Rosenkavalier (1911) has been in the Metropolitan's repertoire, but neither the Adriadue auf Naxos nor the Josephs Legende has as yet been heard in the U. S. Although the mere mention of Strauss's name no longer, causes the uproar it used to occasion, many critics heartily disagree with the composer's own judgment as to the "superficiality" of the things he has done...
...vacation in Boston. He heard theft the Boston Post was nearly bankrupt. It was a challenge. He stepped in and bought the paper. He then had: $100 cash, 3,000 subscribers, a debt of $150,000 and an average net loss of $2,500 a week...
That same pleasure which the reader of Emerson so often experiences, seemed apparent in the audience at the Union last night when it turned for a time from the baffling specific to the brilliantly stated generality. Mr. Bertrand Russell set forth more clearly than it is usually heard the logically impeccable case for intellectual toleration...