Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death has laid a heavy hand on the ranks of Republican Senators during the last year. In March Senator Samuel D. Nicholson of Colorado died; Governor Sweet appointed Alva B. Adams, a " progressive" Democrat, to occupy his seat. In April Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota died; Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Laborite, was elected in his stead. In July Senator William P. Dillingham of Vermont died. His place has not yet been filled, but there is a good chance that the Republicans will not lose another Senator. Last week primaries were held to choose the candidates who will stand in a special...
...society was chartered last June by the national organization which makes its headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn., after petitioning for more than a year. The 14 charter members elected officers just before the close of the college year with E. P. Nelson 5E.S. at president. The fraternity was founded in 1885 at Lehigh University to "foster a spirit of liberal culture in the Engineering Schools of America and to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honors upon their college by a high grade of scholarship as undergraduates or by other attainments as alumni...
...season held Wednesday night. The board consists of Albert Palmer '23, elected for four years; M. S. Bromwell '23, elected for three years; J. G. Peter 1G.E.S., elected for two years; and Charles Weller '23, elected for one year. It was also decided to send President E. P. Nelson 4E.S. as a delegate to the national convention of the fraternity to be held soon in Lexington, Kentucky...
...places to go " in London. It contains waxwork models of celebrities-a long line of Kings and Queens, famous criminals, Nelson, Napoleon, Roosevelt, Wilson, Crippen. All the models are dressed in the costume of their times...
...Jean Nelson Penfield of New York, chairman on uniform state laws, urged standardization of marriage and divorce laws...