Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed and later accepted when higher postal rates were provided to meet the cost. The Bursum Spanish War pension bill he vetoed and by one vote his veto was sustained. A bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals he pocket-vetoed. By firm persuasion he saved the Treasury from "the most extortionate proposal . . . ever made upon the nation's revenues"- the flood control...
...Orleans-Pontchartrain toll bridge have made this unhappy discovery. The great span was born under politics, and politics in the form of free state ferries across the lake, caused its financial demise. This month, after a year's profitless operation, it went quietly into bankruptcy, unable to meet interest charges on its $5,500,000 construction cost...
...Harvard debating team will meet the University of Pennsylvania tonight at 8.15 o'clock in Paine Hall of the Music Building. Harvard will uphold the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That this house approves the Baumes Law of New York State...
...fourth match of the season, the University swordsmen will meet Bowdoin at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Hemenway Gymnasium. To date, the University fencers have won one out of three starts...
...regarded as the most redoubtable opponent on the Crimson schedule. The general belief that the Rhode Islanders always turn out good gapplers is substantiated this year by the fact that they have defeated Yale. The match will prove a real test for the Harvard team, which is to meet the Blue on March...