Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke, who had urged it to "stop bickering, adjourn and stay adjourned," was loudly denounced by Senator Borah. Cried the Idaho Senator: ". . . Utterly false and malicious statement! Who is this Babson? A man serving special interests, who has no responsibility, who could not carry a precinct...
Kentucky. What the Wisconsin resolution seemed to call for was a state of banking affairs like that described by Max Brunswick Nahm of the Citizens National Bank of Bowling Green, Ky., at the American Bankers Association October convention. Said Mr. Nahm...
...largest contribution, $1000, will be made to the Red Cross. $250 will be given to the Cambridge Council of the Boy Scouts of America, $250 to the Salvation Army, and a like amount to the Near East Relief. The Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students will receive $500, as will the International Student Service for student work in Bulgaria...
...these men, Avery, Easland, Hathaway, Parker, Pollard, and Umphrey are regular pilots, qualified to fly by the United States Department of Commerce. The Flying Club will hold another competition ourly in the spring. Like the competition just concluded, it will be open to al members of the University...
...fact that breakfast is at present the least attended meal in the Freshman Dormitories indicates that an extension of this hour is very desirable. The rapid cafeteria-like service promised by the proposed buffet system should also increase the popularity of the House move...