Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Larynx. It is a long time since the voice of Senator T. Coleman du Pont of Delaware was heard on the Senate floor. Illness kept him absent most of last term. Now Senator du Pont's own voice will never be heard again. He was reported convalescent in Manhattan last week after an operation for ulcer of the throat which necessitated removal or derangement of his vocal chords and adjacent portions of his tongue and windpipe. An artificial larynx was installed...
...Federal Reserve System alone" was a caution wholeheartedly endorsed. Said Melvin Alvah Traylor, retiring president of the Association: "Nothing could be more unfortunate than that there should be further legislative action with respect to our banking system." In the absence of U. S. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, kept at home through illness in his family, discussion on foreign loans was dropped...
...newspaper editor, his opponent David D. Leahy, a former judge who had thrice sentenced Magee to prison-once for libel and twice for contempt of court. The libel was published in Magee's Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity of Albert Bacon Fall was important evidence in the Teapot Dome scandal. Editor Magee is a fighting man, a bitter enemy of municipal, state or national corruption; calling a spade a spade and saying it with headlines...
...scoreless tie resulted from the Senior-Sophomore final class football game yesterday afternoon, when the greatly improved Sophomore team kept the ball in the Senior territory most of the first half, and met the championship Seniors on equal terms during the entire game...
...Fogg Museum was described by Dr. Zimmermann as the finest new museum building he has seen. Dr. Zimmermann pointed out that the Nuremberg Goose-Man, a cast of which stands in the foremost of the Germanic Museum here, is not available for any museum, as it is kept in a public square of Nuremberg. But the wood study, from which the original statue was developed, is in the Nuremberg Germanic Museum, and is placed just inside the main entrance of this building...