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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio held a primary and Hooverized 31 of the state's 51 convention votes, a far larger majority than had been expected. Women's votes were heavily pro-Hoover. The balance of 20 delegates, technically instructed for the late Candidate Willis, were mostly committed to Candidate Lowden as second choice and Non-Candidate Dawes for third. An embarrassing feature was the defeat of Senator Simeon D. Fess as a delegate-at-large. The G. O. P. had already picked him as convention keynoter. But his admission to the convention, it was thought, could be arranged by obtaining...
Flood Control levy this year, or $201,000,000 if Flood Control is postponed. More still, the manufacturers took square issue with the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, whose insistence on a far larger tax-cut than the Administration approves is frequently represented to be the voice of Industry...
...largest groups have been for many years the students of Modern Languages and the students of History, Government, and Economics. Until the year 1920-21, the Modern Language group was usually in the ascendancy, but for the past six years, History, Government, and Economics have shown the larger enrolment. Now the students of Modern Languages have again become the largest group in the school. It is possible that this change may be a mere fluctuation without any deeper significance, but the marked increase in the number of students of Modern Languages is certainly noteworthy...
...modern university is a miniature of the modern world, embracing every endeavor found elsewhere on a larger scale. The students of a university are players taking part in a dummy scrimmage. They are going through the motions, and in doing so they may plan to meet emergencies which may never come. They can make mistakes which would be fatal in a larger sphere of life but which, after they are made, may be stored up as profit for the future. Knowledge gained from observation and from the acquisition of facts may be illumined by imagination that comes from speculation...
William Ellery Sweet, onetime (1923-24) governor of Colorado, and his son, Channing Fullerton Sweet, purchased the 15,307-acre Jack Woods cattle ranch, upon which they expect to breed a larger number of purebred cattle than does any other ranch...