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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Norris of Nebraska, himself no mean versifier, parodied James Whitcomb Riley's Little Orphant Annie with especial reference to Secretary Kellogg...
...enlisted strength of 118,750 instead of the 115,000 proposed in the budget; it made no allowances for the building of new barracks. With such additions, the 1366,000,000 bill went to the House to be debated. Skeptics wondered whether the extra five cents a day would mean beefsteaks or merely better hash...
...signature it bore a cross, for he made this will three days before his death from pneumonia, when he was too feeble for greater exertion. Half of the estate's residue, about $1,400,000 is willed to Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York. That might mean me personally, for Roman Catholic prelates are permitted to own private fortunes. But Lawyer-Banker Whalen's own lawyer, Edmund L. Mooney, an Episcopalian, who witnessed the will, says that the late John Whalen intended me to be trustee for the Archdiocese of New York...
...What do you Americans mean by 'petting' or 'pecking'? The things which I imagine are referred to don't happen over there. I'm sure they don't" Canon Elliott of Leeds, England...
...college and the alumni. He has to bridge the gap between certain of the alumni who want a bigger and better football team and certain of the faculty who would like to abolish the football team altogether. Whatever his personal convictions may be, he has to establish the golden mean between, not only two, but often half a dozen discordant-factions. On first thought it would seem that the logical remedy for the anomalous position of the college president were to divide his office between two persons, as it is divided in England between the president of the college, whose...