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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laborite Will Thorne of West Ham (interrupting) : "That is a lie! ... The Attorney General is telling a lot of lies...
...therefore, not only commendable in itself, but equally praiseworthy as an example which might quite logically be followed by all Eastern colleges. A similar arrangement has been instituted with success in the "Big Ten" Association, and whereas the present system here has not resulted in a recognized evil, the lot of a big game referee, dependent on the approval of the rival coaches for his position, could not have been a very happy...
...hundred Bowery bummers signed and sent a petition to Salvation Army authorities last week: "We, the undersigned, wish Isabella Austin to stay on the Bowery. She did a lot for us while she was here and we do not want to lose her." The girl, 19, blond, slim, small, cheery, had been giving street talks along the Bowery the past three months, had led many a corner prayer. But the strict Salvation Army rule, that workers must be frequently shifted to new localities, was behind her instructions to proceed to Morristown, N. J. Her orders not rescinded, she reported there...
...Cochran, 74, onetime Chief Inspector of the Post Office Department; at Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1894, when Coxey's Army marched from the West to Washington, D. C., 352 men seized a passenger train in Kansas, ran wild with it. Major Cochran and his guards captured the lot, marched them to jail. The pursuit, arrest and conviction of Gerald Chapman and "Dutch" Anderson, famed mail robbers, was directed...
...lot of people are talking about the return of respectability. Here* is proof that they may be right. A young lady, once frisky as you please, writes a book about Romance being all very well but not half so dependable as the sterling oldtime conventions?emphasis on family, worldly goods, comfort and the like...