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...object to President Hoover's choice as Chief Justice. One by one other Republican Progressives began to rally against Mr. Hughes. Such assorted Democratic Senators as Virginia's Glass and South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's George and Washington's Dill joined the hue and cry. For three full days with crowded galleries, the Senate Chamber rumbled and roared with pent-up liberal resentment against judicial conservatism. Always the issue remained larger than Mr. Hughes' appointment...
Should news of the passing of the Prom still the revival instinct in members of the Junior Class one can yet conceive of its re-birth. But unless there is a sudden hue and cry calling the Promback to life, time probably would be better spent speculating as to the future of college dances under the House Plan social scheme, than in pondering the fate of an occasion that has had its day of glory...
...building a few minutes after midnight. By 12.30 o'clock, as fresh contingents of firefighters arrived from various Boston, Allston, and Cambridge stations, the flames had already soared to a height at least twice that of the building, coloring the murky, rainladen sky with a deep crimson hue, visible for miles around...
Reactions. Western senators raised a great hue and cry against the proposed marriage of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, claiming it would eliminate all competition. Chairman-elect McManamy concurred in the general plan "only because I expect economy and efficiency of operation to be promoted by the gigantic systems proposed. . . . We should not, to open the door to lawful consolidations, propose consolidations which are themselves unlawful and that I think we have done...
...Cambridge the Vagabond feels the long departed spirit of youth creeping over him once more. It is the sort of thing that infuses a peculiar warmth throughout his windswept diggings high up in Memorial Tower and makes the fresh log on the hearth glow to a merry Crimson hue...