Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact the ritual of farm relief hear- ings became so stupid that Oklahoma's Senator Thomas proposed a means of enlivening them. He would call tycoons of industry and finance?Henry Ford, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Michael Schwab, Paul Moritz Warburg, Owen D. Young, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Andrew William Mellon?and have them say what was wrong with the farmer...
Democratic opposition to a G. O. P. tariff was still fluid. Alfred Emanuel Smith, in the campaign, had declared for a "compensatory tariff," to which many a Democratic Congressman heedlessly pledged himself. Tennessee's Democratic Cordell Hull of the Ways & Means Committee alone had raised a John-The-Baptist cry against Republican tariff plans. Hardly a Democratic Congressman but had some pampered local industry he would like to see "protected," ranging from women's shoes in Brooklyn to cane sugar in Louisiana...
...Friday, April 12 the Reverend John Roach Stratton D.D., pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. New York City, and V. F. Calverton, editor of "Sex in Civilization", will debate at Symphony Hall. Boston on the question. "Is Religion Necessary to Human Welfare" Dr. Stratton will uphold the affirmative, while Calverton, who is an extreme defender of the modernistic school of thought, will argue the negative...
...announcement in yesterday's CRIMSON to the effect that John Van Sickle 21, was the winner of the David A. Wells Prize in Economics, was erroneous. The prize was won by J. V. Van Sickle, who received his A. M. degree from Harvard...
...Harvard Lampoon announces the election of Richard McHugh Chilson '31, of New York City, of John Boardman Page '30, of Phoenix, Ariz., and of Prescott Winkley '31, of Medford, to the Literary Board; and of John Handy Henshaw '31, of Rye, N. Y., and of James Bethune Campbell '31, of Jamaica Plain, to the Business Board...