Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York State, populous, rich, these dancers are labeled "signifi-cant." So, last week, delegates and reporters scurried to Syracuse where the Democrats held their nominating convention- and to Madison Square Garden in Manhattan where the Republicans assembled. Both parties had everything well oiled. Somebody opened the session with a prayer, somebody made a keynote speech, somebody produced the platform, somebody read it, almost everybody thought it was fine. On the second day the Standard Bearers were nominated, seconded many times, voted upon mechanically. So were the lesser lights on the tickets. People were happy, long-winded, subject to conventional cheering...
...initial practice, yesterday afternoon, all returned members of last year's squad were present with three exceptions. E. F. Gamache '27, Madison Sayles '27, and A. C. Lane '27 are playing football and will not be out for fall practice. Although the team will be seriously handicapped by the loss through graduation of Captain Reed, J. H. Watson '26, and C. W. Gilles '26, Captain Merrill Lynn '27 may be expected to lead a successful team. Several competent veterans were on the field yesterday afternoon...
Albert Gallatin of Pennsylvania, once a teacher of French in Harvard College, who became minister to France and to England and negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, and who as Secretary of the Treasury, during the administrations of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, financed the Louisiana Purchase...
...greatest ends ever turned out in the Big Ten Conference, who was an All-American choice while playing his last year at the University of Illinois in 1920. J. N. Barbee '28, one of the most accurate passers of last year's squad, has not yet reported for practice, Madison Sayles '27, regular end on last year's eleven, appears to have been permanently converted into a back...
...great deal of money. He increased his regular income by bringing over shiploads of antiques and selling them among his friends. Most of his work was done in Manhattan where, with the help of Charles McKim, he built the Metropolitan and Century Clubs, the Tiffany and Gorham buildings, the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Library of Columbia University, and finally, the old Madison Square Garden (torn down last year). This bulking sultry building, with its hippodromes and galleries, tapering to Saint-Gaudens' winged Diana on its central citadel, had a roof garden with a cabaret show and a smart...