Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today," wrote Brother Cleveland, "fraternity folk pretty much direct the affairs of the nation. The White House is 100 per cent. Greek letter, with President Coolidge flying the royal purple of Phi Gamma Delta and the First Lady of the Land wearing the arrow of Pi Beta Phi. Vice President Charles G. Dawes of Delta Upsilon guides the destiny of the U. S. Senate. Nicholas Longworth, of Zeta Psi, is in command of the House of Representatives...
...that some one in the Treasury Department had been told to look up his back tax returns and see if anything could be "gotten on him." But the Treasury Department denied this and said that the 1919 Ford stock profit item had been called to its attention by a letter-writer. The Treasury said that the value of the stock in 1913, when the income tax first operated, should have been made the basis of Senator Couzens' profit...
...Soviet censor, as a "Padisha." Curiously enough, however, the verbal use of "Majesty" was not barred, because research had established that the late Nikolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, whose every act and word has become a sanctified example, once addressed to the "Padisha of Afghanistan" a letter which began, "Your Majesty...
These were the mournful words which Pope Pius XI wrote in an open letter to Cardinal Pompili, vicar of the Rome diocese, apropos of a "gymnastic" competition which was held in that city last week. The Pontiff proceeded to explain that he was not, in principle, opposed to athletics but that when competitions became too exhibitionistic, he felt compelled to frown. Governmental circles in Rome regarded the Pope's letter as another manifestation of the Vatican's opposition to what the Pope calls "Fascist monopolization of the education of youth." At the end of his document the Pontiff...
...recovering from appendicitis, F. A. Clark '29 rowed on the University crew against M. I. T. and Cornell, and L. A. Shaw '30 was taken ill at the last moment and was unable to fill his position at No. 1. J. P. Cotton Jr. '29 was the only letter man in the game...