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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charter members of the W. O. N. P. R. included: Mrs Pierre Samuel du Pont (Delaware), Mrs. Ralph Martin Shaw (Illinois), Mrs. Meredith Nicholson (Indiana), Mrs. Lothrop Ames (Massachusetts), Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness (New York), Miss Agnes Repplier (Pennsylvania), Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons (Rhode Island), Mrs. George Orvis (Vermont). Like Mrs. Sabin, Mrs. Orvis had left the Republican National Committee to be free to fight Prohibition...
Speaking for the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, characterized the W. O. N. P. R. with this sneer: "A little group of wine-drinking society women who are uncomfortable under Prohibition...
...strangest experiences that the crew of the Los Angeles ever had was when, last September, as the ship sailed low over Layton, N. J., a man ran out with a shotgun and fired a charge up into the big silvery bag. He accompanied his shot with dancing, gesticulations and lilliputian shouts. The lead pellets, though buckshot, tore only small holes in the ship's fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot...
...Leighton. B. E Harvard 2 Mr. Parsons. PB. W Harvard 6 Mr. Rafzlaff. L. U New Lect. Hall Mr. Shoemaker. A. P New Lect. Hall Mr. Stratton. Q. Z New Lect. Hall Mr. Taylor. D. F. New Lect. Hall Mr. White, M. X New Lect. Hall Mr. Winslow. B. N New Lect. Hall Economics 4b Atamian-Koetzle Geol. Lect. Rm. Kohn-Youngman Pierce 110 English 39 Harvard 5 English 76 Sever 35 Fine Arts 1a New. Fogg Lect. Rm. German 8 Sever 29 German 9 Sever 18 German 24 Sever 18 Government 4 Sem. Mus. 1 Government 13b Adams Perivolas...
...five representatives of the University who are members of this Antarctic expedition are Dr. Bradford Coman '20, Medical Director of the party, J. D. Ganahl '25, Frederick Crockett '30, N. D. Vaughan '30, and E. E. Goodale '30, dog drivers...