Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be interesting to know just .how many similar awards have been made, and in whose favor. I cannot but wonder just what qualifications one must have in order to share in this Senatorial graft. Can TIME enlighten me-and some intimate friends with whom I have discussed this matter...
...which the Senate thought, on the eve of the Chapman deal's consummation, that" it smelled, was not only a matter of money. Rubicund Senator McKellar of Tennessee complained loudly that a onetime Shipping Board official, Joseph Edward Sheedy, was in shameful cahoots with Mr. Chapman. Cried Senator Mc-Kellar...
These steps were taken by one Harry M. Blair, shrewd Manhattan broker, one-time Y. M. C. A. campaigner, a cash collector for Mr. Hoover during the campaign. The matter came last week to the attention of Assistant Postmaster-General W. Irving Glover, secretary of the committee in charge of the inaugural. Mr. Glover quickly announced that Mr. Blair had no official standing. He wondered how Mr. Blair obtained the bigwig list, started an investigation...
Although this method has been used with varying success in some of the state universities, the matter was brought to a head by action of the Boston University Athletic council at its last week-end meeting in abolishing the old method of electing captains...
...undergraduate the system opens opportunities for currying parental approval unequalled even by the palmy first grade days when Mamma beamed her joy over the coveted "Ex" in deportment: No matter how gray the skies may hang over such courses as Philosophy A or Evolution 6, the mediocre but conscientious Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock...