Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a seven-year-old bill providing compulsory compensation of injured employees by employers in the District of Columbia; sent it to the House. C. Passed the House bill of appropriations to run the House and Senate, adding on $500,000 to improve the Senate chamber's light and ventilation...
...snowy crown of Representative Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois shone as usual one day last week in the subdued light of the House. Dryly, vigorously he defended the right of a minority member to register opposition to a proposal which he, Chairman Madden of the Appropriations Committee, had endorsed. After his speech, Mr. Madden went from the floor to his Committee's suite, where he sat chatting with a friend about the ecent Illinois primary in which he had been nominated for a 13th consecutive term in the House. A few minutes later, the cloakroom stirred with a grave...
...Sophomore A crew easily won the class championship from Junior and Sophomore B crews over the mile and three quarters course in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon. At the same time the Freshman 150-pound crew deefated the M. I. T. first year light eight by a length over a mile race...
Both races were rowed upstream due to the rough water in the Basin. The Ineligible Combination and University 150-pound crews both started the class race, but the light weight combination dropped out at the Henley distance and the Ineligibles, after starting well, were serious handicapped when S. I. Bowditch '28, rowing No. 2, broke his oarlock, which resulted in disabling him and splitting the oar of W. H. Boldt...
...just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged to the late steel tycoon, Elbert Henry Gary. The other 38 paintings raised the total price for the evening's auctioning to $1,154,650, the record* for a single sale; most...