Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baron 15-10, 5-15, 15-11, 15-19; R. R. Stebbins '31 defeated W. C. Haydn, 15-14, 8-15, 15-6, 9-15, 15-7; E. M. Shelton '31 defeated S. D. Arend, 15-7, 15-6, 17-15; B. D. Richardson '29 defeated John Crayn, 15-8, 15-8, 15-3; P. H. Rhinelander '29 defeated F. E. Mendes...
...JOHN KAISER...
...President Coolidge appointed John W. Pole of Cleveland to be Comptroller of the Currency, vice Joseph W. Mclntosh resigned. Duties of the Comptroller of the Currency are to supervise application of the banking laws, study reports from U. S. bank examiners. All national banks must report to him periodically. He has power to close banks with shaky resources...
...whose 60 years have been spent in House service. In 1881 he became Page-Boy Page. In May he will celebrate his tenth anniversary as mainspring of the-order-of-business and lord high referee (unofficially) of parliamentary perplexities. A crisp-mustached Marylander, collaterally descended from President John Tyler and directly from Signer Carter Braxton of the Declaration of Independence, faithful Clerk Page is certain of his biennial re-elections so long as the House stays Republican...
...John Quillin Tilson of New Haven, Conn., worked his way through Yale and was graduated the same year (1891) that affluent young "Nick" Longworth emerged from Harvard. A tall, bony Yank, he went to the Spanish War, returned to practice law, worked to the top of his Legislature, reached Congress in 1909. His face is lined like bark, but he does not bite. Conservative, shrewd, popular with serious men, he has cast a long shadow at national conventions...