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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English language owes a debt of incalculable size to Buncombe County, N. C. for a fine eight-letter noun that aptly identifies certain types of insincerity. The U. S. Senate owes a debt of questionable size to the same county for Senator Robert Rice (''Roarin' Bob") Reynolds. Last week Washington newshawks had fun with an incident that concerned Bob Reynolds and somehow seemed to recall the name of the county of his birth...
...petition, signed by 35 Freshmen and handed in to Kendric N. Marshall '21 Secretary of the Union, before 7 o'clock, February 17, will be sufficient to nominate a class officer. That time on that date is positively the last at which petitions will be accepted...
...third successive year the national three-weapon (foil, épée, sabre) fencing championship of the U. S. from a field of 29; at the Fencers Club, New York. ¶West Point's polo team: its 27th consecutive victory, beating Yale, 12-to-9: at West Point, N...
...York Bar. A speaker who "conceded that the prestige of the legal profession has been rapidly sinking in the public mind during the past quarter of a century" was the only salaried "proctor of the Bar" in the U. S. He is Karl A. McCormick, 50, of Buffalo, N. Y., whose job as watchdog of the Western New York judicial district was created last year by the New York Legislature to check the qualification of Bar candidates, investigate charges of unethical and illegal practices...
Salary of the first proctor is $6,000 per year, with $4,000 for expenses and an assistant's salary. Funds come from the lawyers of the district who conceived the post, selected Lawyer McCormick for it. Born in Medina, N. Y., Karl McCormick attended the University of Buffalo's School of Law (1909). He and his wife are crack bridge players, live on Buffalo's Chatham Avenue two blocks from where President William Mclvinley was shot...