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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what many a Wet construed as a reduction of the law to an absurdity, what many a Dry welcomed as a solution of the problem of punishing liquor buyers occurred last week in the U. S. District Court at Peoria, 111. There Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry laid down a new and startling interpretation of the Jones...
...steady spread of Group Banking systems has given local-minded politicians a new and well-sharpened issue with which to prod their constituencies...
...world at large, the headmasters of three famed New England private schools are Dr. Samuel Smith Drury (St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands of affectionate graduates, hundreds of respectful schoolboys, they are and always will be known respectively as "The Drip," "Pee-bo," and "Twill." St. Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest...
Glenn Warner's Cardinals hit the stride that made them look like champions early in the season. They used a pretty new lateral pass spun out of a cross-buck in which five men handled the ball. Substitute Moffatt and Halfback Frentrup did most of Stanford's scoring. Unexpectedly defensive, California's Lorn kept punting out of danger. He passed to Thornton for one touchdown but needed more than that. Stanford 21, California...
Pretty Mary Plummer. "It was the happiest time I have ever known, the only really happy one"?so wrote Clemenceau of three brief years he spent as a young man in New York, where he worked as a librarian, and at Stamford, Conn., where he taught young ladies French and how to ride horses, at Miss Aiken's boarding school...