Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Major General William J. Behan, 87, Louisiana political leader; of heart disease; in New Orleans...
...other names prominently mentioned for Number Two Man last week were Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, because all Democrats know him as their able party leader in the Senate; and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, because he is dry, and chiefly because his hold upon Ohio, with 24 electoral votes, is an outstanding phenomenon of U. S. politics. It was not solely to improve his health that Governor Donahey prepared last week to make an extensive tour of the South...
...season go from college to college, watching workouts from launches or from the boathouse platform. Other commentators, believing that things in rowing, more than in any other sport, are decided by training methods, considered the theories and personalities of the various coaches. Most discussed last week was Edward O. Leader (Yale), gruff and domineering, who has built his crew out of meagre material. A week before the race at Philadelphia he found a stroke, Woodruff Rankin Tappen. He believes that Yale will row in the Olympics...
...other coach has turned out as consistently fine crews as Leader. He lost two races last year: one to Harvard, when a Yale man "caught a crab," and one to Princeton, through overconfidence. The Yale crew did not raise its beat until it was inside the flags marking the last quarter mile and even at that it finished within a few feet of the winner. If it had not been for these two slips Leader would have a record of six years without a defeat. He is efficient because he is absorbed in training a crew to row, without considering...
...Hutchinson '28, Joseph Morrill '28, Winston, and C. L. Stover '30 will represent the University. The Boston University team will be composed of four of the following six men; Captain Chesley, Breed, Knowles, Maggioli, Faxon, Speare, Chealey, the B. U. leader, is a veteran of three seasons and will be a formidable No. 1 man on the visiting team...