Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill to raise the retirement pay of 3,390 War officers who were disabled 30% or more, to the scale paid regular retired officers, entailing $2,294,000 per annum (average, $56.40 per month per officer); Representatives Johnson (South Dakota), McClintic (Oklahoma) Luce (Massachusetts), Rankin (Mississippi), Vincent (Michigan), Huddleston (Alabama) opposed this bill but it was passed without a roll call. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $1,770,000 in the next five years to breed game-fish. ¶ Voted 169 to 159 for an adjournment blocking a vote on the Senate's measure to have the Muscle Shoals...
...increasing strength of the opposing hurlers, especially of those from Holy Cross, Michigan, and New Hampshire State, has lowered the Harvard sluggers' batting average to the .329 mark. This is a decrease of 16 points in the last six contests...
...Donaghy '29 is holding down third place in the batting order with an average of .383. In the Bowdoin. New Hampshire State, and Michigan games, he cracked out doubles to raise his total to five, heading J. P. Chase '28 by one. He is also tied with Lord in the race for home run honors, both players having three to their credit. In the Dartmouth and Middlebury games, Lord had a field day at bat, smashing out three circuit clouts and an equal number of doubles. His average...
...pitching staff, J. N. Barbee '28 has added Bowdoin, Michigan, and Dartmouth to his list of victims, but suffered his first setback of the season when the Crusaders drove him from the mound after two and one-third innings of service. F. B. Cutts '28 hurled successfully against the Wildcats, allowing only six scattered hits; he relieved Barbee in the encounter with the Purple performing creditably on a cold...
...Milwaukee on Lake Michigan, in the world's greatest iron ore and iron & steel working region, last week, were cargoes of pig iron brought by ships from England. Iron Age magazine believed that more such iron will be shipped regularly to Great Lakes ports on British ships small enough to go through the Welland Canal (in Canada, near Niagara Falls...