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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party, nor am I any particular defender of Senator Smoot. I was, however, present at this meeting during the mayoralty campaign of 1927, at what was then the Metropolitan Opera House. This Republican mass meeting occurred near the close of a campaign notable chiefly for its utter lack of observance of the ordinary decencies of a campaign. Candidates were referred to as four-flushers, blatherskites, big-nothings, stuffed shirts, jelly-fishes, etc. A committee of supporters of him to whom you very appropriately refer as "Senator-suspect" from Pennsylvania called the meeting, advertised as a mass meeting. It was attended...
...landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular field, its buildings rising in height as they recede from the centre. Next month at Cleveland, engineers will meet with architects, city planners, and flyers in an attempt to design best types of airports for various services. Lack of ports, like lack of trained flyers, is hampering the U. S. air industry. Flyers consider Croydon, near London, and the Tempelhof, near Berlin, at present the best equipped fields in the world. German flyers say Croydon as it was this past year was better than Tempelhof; British flyers call...
...uprisings and restore constitutional government. On the theory that Cuban sovereignty can be suspended at will by the U. S. under the Platt Amendment, Secretary Stimson is being implored by anti-Machadoists to see the "unconstitutional" character of that president's regime, the suppression of "individual liberty." the lack of protection for "property...
Hanging up their second successive victory, the Crimson Freshman lacrosse team defeated the Springfield Seconds 8 to 2 in a game staged on the Business School field Saturday afternoon. The visitors were handicapped by lack of practice, but physically were in good condition...
...parties starting thus from scratch, no one could pipe up and point to defeats as the result of too few secret practices; and the team might regain some of that organic unity with the student and alumni, the loss of which has lead to the recent plaintive whining about lack of vocal support...