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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clancy of Michigan-refers to himself as "The Billion Dollar Congressman" during campaigns. Went to the House first as a Democrat, was beaten at the polls and is now there as a Republican, violently partisan. He is the great "whisperer" of the House, with all manner of "inside dope," often quite worthless. He considers himself the privileged Representative of the motor industry. Hence his self-conferred title. As a Democrat he was a pleasant character whom all liked: as a Republican he poses as a "statesman." The House smiles...
Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., might have been a pastor or Y. M. C. A. executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...
...about 500 B. C. They made only tentative penetrations below the floor level, but these sufficed to show that important ruins lay underneath, dating from earlier occupations. In these lower depths we may hope to find objects of finer quality than anything yet found on the site, as has often occurred in Babylonian exploration...
...place in Harvard's existence for many years, and in general there can be no doubt that it has done well. Merely in serving as a clearing house between the numerous extra-University groups calling for student aid, and the numerous students who find tangible satisfaction in altruism or often in material training, Phillips Brooks House becomes an integral part of Harvard; and this activity is but a minute part of the web of organization interests. Freshman Week, the Loan Library, work in the Graduate Schools, the winter lecture course, allowe their continuation chiefly...
...substitute complex. They started just as Rockne often does, but it the game Penn kept sending...