Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what counts. A base on balls is as good as a clean single if there is a home-run slugger in the lineup. The total runs, not the hits, win the game. In the Republican league, James E. Watson plays on the anti-Hoover team, whose hardest hitter in June may well be James E. Watson's good friend, Charles Gates Dawes. Therefore, James E. Watson, small of eye, large of stomach, quick of mind, comfortable of conscience, who can always get and has often accepted a political base on balls in Indiana, last week announced his Presidential candidacy...
...soft coal miners of the country had no jobs. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who in 1894 led Coxey's workless "Army of the Commonweal of Christ" afoot from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, last week at Manhattan said that on a tour from Boston to Minneapolis since last June he had found "25% of the factories idle in the territory covered." He is considered a reliable, although theatrical, observer...
...they held out their hands to fires that were colder than the stars. Food was scarce at Valley Forge. The general, his bleak face pinched by the agony of that winter's cold, could promise no comfort. The spring came slowly and the army stayed through a warm June, when trout jumped at twilight in Schuylkill River...
...annual cruise of the Naval Science Department will start from Boston, June 21 for a two week's sail along the Eastern coast, and will include visits to Halifax, N. S., and Portland, Maine, according to the itinerary as announced yesterday by Commander R. C. Grady, U. S. N., Professor of Naval Science. Probably about 40 members of the University unit will be on board in addition to detachments from Yale, Northwestern, and Georgia Tech. The trip will be made on the battleship Wyoming, the flagship of the U. S. Scouting Force...
...itinerary as released yesterday is as follows: Embark at Boston Navy Yard June 21; arrive Halifax June 23; leave Halifax June 26, arrive Portland June 30; leave Portland July 3; disembark Boston Navy Yard July 4. It has been suggested that when the ship leaves Boston she might proceed to New London for the Harvard-Yale boat races the next day and leave for Halifax from there. Owing to the heavy demands upon the time of the Wyoming all next summer and the difficulty of rearranging the itinerary, there is only a bare possiblity that this part of the program...