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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debentures In. Trouble began when the Senate voted 47 to 44 to retain in the bill the Export Debenture Plan, ten objections by President Hoover notwithstanding (TIME, April 29). The line of cleavage on this vote proved two things; 1) The Hoover 1928 victory in four Southern States carried no weight in the Senate where Democrats (with two exceptions) joined solidly against him and for the Debenture Plan; 2) The nine-year coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans still held a whip hand over major legislation, despite the G. O. P.'s paper majority of 17 votes...
Southward out of Chicago early one morning last week slipped three automobiles. They crossed the Illinois-Indiana line and parked at Spooner's Nook in the desolate outskirts of Hammond. Something heavy was flung into the brush. One of the cars was driven into a ditch. The other two cars drove away...
With academic issues above the interest and comprehension of the average New York voter, Mayor Walker will run on his "record," will win on his "popularity"-unless he decides to take up a new line of business...
...first crew tomorrow, as he has been doing all this week. Captain Clark will be at No. 4, with Harrison taking his old berth. Penn and Navy, like Harvard, have been the underdogs in their races so far this season. Coach Glendon's midshipmen are going to the starting line with small comfort in having defeated Syracuse a week ago, for they have previously lost to Tech and Columbia. The Quaker staters have also matched up against the season's best crews, finishing last in regattas with Columbia and Yale, and Columbia and Princeton...
Tickets for about 300 couples have been sold while the stag line is long, as usual, for which about 150 tickets have been sold. Both these numbers are lower than those for last year...