Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week was published a new biography. Title: Our President: Herbert Hoover. Pages: 45. Price: $1. Author, publisher, printer and salesman: one William J. Marsh Jr. of New Milford, Conn., aged...
...addition to 60 regular copies, William J. Marsh Jr. printed a special one on vellum to carry to the White House and present personally to his subject. The President will find in it not only a record of his own career but also many views, comments and digressions by the author, also photographs of the author holding his country's flag. A moralist, Biographer Marsh is no less interested in Prohibition, Public Schools and the art of growing rich than he is in Herbert Hoover...
...faltered, lifted, droned away. The rest of the Lexington's planes followed, at 15 to 30-second intervals. Away from their carriers, against the sky, the planes looked bigger, changed from bees to birds. As they took their close-packed, triad formations, the ocean changed to a duck-marsh, with here wedges of swift teal (the fighters), here a group of bigger black duck (scouts), and there a string of geese (the bombers). In about a half-hour enough planes were put in the sky to panic-strike, if not devastate, any city in the world. New Yorkers...
...Daniel Marsh, president of Boston University, is quoted as having said that in more than four years as head of B. U., during which he attended football games, parties, banquets, and smokers, he has seen only two students who appeared to have been drinking. He has never seen a student drunk or a student with a pocket flask...
Presumably this proves in Dr. Marsh's mind that there is virtually no such thing as drinking in the colleges of today. It need scarcely be pointed out to any undergraduate or person closely connected with student life that such an assumption is utterly groundless. There is a great deal of drinking among the students of nearly all the colleges and universities in the country. So much has been definitely established by the series of collegiate prohibition polls, recently undertaken and carried out at the instigation of the CRIMSON in more than a score of institutions of learning in various...