Word: helm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this day. Students regulate discipline, keep order in study hall, wait on tables, manage the athletic teams, keep the equipment -from footballs to library books- in order. Wealthy boys and boys of moderate means are treated alike. The system is based solely on. individual merits, with upperclassmen at the helm...
...football player, he entered Parliament. A smart young man, he established the Irish constabulary and the London police.* But some say that he disappointed his ancestors. He was a Tory who could see two sides to every question. In a time of domestic crisis, he took the helm, taxed incomes, lowered the tariff, wiped out a treasury deficit, repealed the corn laws which were obnoxious to the masses. In short-"he lost a party, but won a nation." Soon he was thrown from his horse on Constitutional Hill and died in three days, mourned in manors and in slums According...
Judges for tonight's debate will be Reverend William W. Love, of Cambridge, Professor J. W. Helm of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University, and A. A. Barnhard...
...four months in office crowned the Baldwin Cabinet, last week, on the occasion of a compromise between its moderate majority led by Premier Baldwin and the arch-Tory group. This compromise effected, Britons could look with a justified satisfaction on the following men, now more firmly at the helm of State than ever...
...sectional-the West and South against the East. The House, last week, threw aside its own farm relief bill, adopted the McNary-Haugen bill exactly as it came from the Senate. Thus, the delay of a conference was obliterated. The farm bloc, with grey-haired Representative Haugen at the helm, bowled over the regular Republican organization with steamroller tactics that recalled the days of "Uncle Joe" Cannon. The Cabinet. Having been informed that both houses of Congress had passed the McNary-Haugen bill, President Coolidge called for his Cabinet, found that it unanimously disapproved of the bill. Secretary...