Word: oct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oct. 28-Opening of 24-week Manhattan season of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Education...
...Oct. 25-Columbia University begins six-day celebration of its 175th anniversary. Sport...
...Illinois v. Army at Urbana; Iowa v. Minnesota at Iowa City; Notre Dame v. Drake at Chicago; Ohio State v. Northwestern at Columbus. West: California Tech v. Redlands at Pasadena; Southern California v. Nevada at Los Angeles; Washington v. Stanford at Seattle; Washington State v. Idaho at Pullman. HORSES. Oct. 30-Nov. 2 - Boston Horse Show. Nov. 7-13-National Horse Show in Manhattan...
...climax of the committee's week came in its scrutiny of how one Senator had deliberately hired a lobbyist and taken him, disguised as a Senate clerk, into the Finance Committee's secret hearings as a means of getting higher tariff rates for his State (TIME, Oct. 7). The Senator was Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. The lobbyist was Charles L. Eyanson, tariff "expert," assistant to the president (of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association. Together Lobbyist Eyanson and Senator Bingham secured tariff increases for 44 of Connecticut's 51 industries. They averaged about 4% and were worth approximately...
...young on account of its maternal love. I put in a plea . . . that your feasting may be restricted . . . tempered by charity to the delighted victim of your generosity." As he prepared to sail from Quebec, to reach London as near as possible to the opening date of Parliament (Oct. 29), the tall, tousle-haired Scot could look back on such a triumph as no avowed champion of Labor ever enjoyed in the Americas before. Toronto. Red Indians liked to meet and barter on the site of Canada's second largest city, called it "Toronto" or "Place of Meeting." Here...