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...title-play is like Alice's mad tea-party in Wonderland. At a continuous Christmas dinner lasting from before the Civil War to the present you watch a midwestern family pass from one generation to another. New characters appear; old ones go out the dark portal of death; as they get older they put on white wigs. As they grow up they say the same things their fathers & mothers said...
...week's biggest games against a Chicago team coached by grizzled, 69-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg, who was Yale All-American end in 1888 and whose son Paul was in the Chicago lineup. Yale's famed little Albie Booth played only two quarters but gave Midwestern Yale men their money's worth by gaining 37 yd. in scrimmage, running punts back 20 yd., intercepting two passes, dropkicking with precision. He let burly Tommy Taylor carry the ball on power plays but did most of Yale's passing with the clipped, short-arm motion and long...
...Midwestern and western school openings will not be delayed...
...York Stock Exchange, this "man who never lost a battle" brought his power to bear as brilliantly in the financial world as he had in manufacturing power and light. Cleveland, city of his adoption, had come to look upon him as its most aggressive financier and some midwestern steel interests fancied him their champion against the East. Last December when he broke the proposed merger between Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. by one of the bitterest and most expensive lawsuits in history, the whole nation looked on and Cyrus Eaton stood at the height of his fame...
...work in the Child Health movement. In 1922 he formed the American Child Health Association, was the first president. As Secretary of Commerce he was concerned with the development of radio, of aviation. Among other of Engineer Hoover's encouragements to science: in 1926 he officially opened the Midwestern Engineering and Power Exposition, Chicago; in 1921 he was president of the American Engineering Council; he is a member of the American Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, the Western Society of Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geological Society to which he sent greetings at their last...