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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally impatient, the President picked his own man, Wilbur N. Hughes, once identified with the Bean group. Awful to hear were the wails of protest from Committeeman Skipper et al. Last month Dr. Fred E. Britten, secretary of the State Republican organization, wrote President Hoover a rebellious letter in which he said: "In the name of God and for the sake of righteousness as well as the economic prosperity of Florida I plead with you to withdraw this nomination." He threatened dire reprisals unless the President appointed men chosen by Mr. Skipper...
...Selected Industries, Inc., an investment company headed by R. S. Revnolds and the affiliated Reybarn Co., both of which are units in the $200,000,000 group of holding companies headed by Chas. D. Barney & Co. The investment was the purchase of Thomas Young Nurseries, Inc., of Bound Brook, N...
Discus throw--Won by E. Yeomans '33 (40 feet); second, P. N. Vonck '31 (17 feet); third, Beecham Moore '31 (30 feet). Distance...
...concluding events of the annual fall handicap track meet, N. P. Beveridge '32 rounded out a successful two days taking his third first place in the meet by winning the broad jump. V. A. Lowe 1G made himself a double winner by placing first in the 880-yard run, having taken the 1 1-2 mile run the day before. W. C. Rowe '31, starting at scratch, took the 220-yard dash after a thrilling race in which he was led by his teammate of last year. F. E. Cummings '30, until the final few yards of the race...
Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard, and the Rev. Prescott Evarts, Rector of Christ Church, Protestant Episcopal, Cambridge, replied yesterday to the remark made recently by the Rt. Rev. Paul Jones, now acting Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, that the display of American flags in public school rooms was "a dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children...