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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening Mr. Hoover spoke in St. Louis, President Coolidge sat near a White House radio. When the speech was finished, the President sent out for his secretary and dictated a long campaign telegram, concluding ". . . All the discussion has made more plain the wisdom of the plans you have proposed for solving our political, economic and social problems. You have shown your fitness to be President...
...grandmother," octogenarian widow of the late President Nash of the American Smelting & Mining Co., had been campaigning for Smith throughout Nebraska all summer. Four days before election she entrained for Manhattan to be Governor Smith's guest and "get the full benefit of that thrill" on Election Day. Near Elgin, Ill., her traveling companion looked into Mrs. Nash's berth, found her dead. A sticklesome legal question arose: could Mrs. Nash's absentee vote be counted...
...team will meet the Oxford Cambridge team on Soldier's Field July 12, 1929, according to an announcement made last night by W. J. Bingham '16, director of Harvard athletics. The last meeting between the English and American teams was won by the former on the Stamford Bridge track near London...
Sometime in the near future this committee will announce a list of nominees for all the various Class Day offices. The first, second, and third Marshals, the Treasurer, poet, Orator, Ivy Orator, Odist, and Chaoister will be elected by the class from this group...
Wild duck, of many breeds, should be hunted, in warm jackets and waterproof boots, near Currituck Sound, N. C., Barnegat Bay, N. J., marshy shores along the Atlantic coast, on long dark lakes in the middle west and in club-blinds along the Great Lakes. In these last, at Sandusky, near Cleveland, President Cleveland used to go hunting...