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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face value, this suggestion was but a blunt, practical expression of an ideal often mouthed but seldom practised by Congressmen after a general election. But coming from whom it did, it led to reconsideration of two little-discussed features of the Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators...
...Gold Ship. The Lamport & Holt liner Vestris, built in Belfast in 1912 and measuring 495 feet in length, 10,944 tons, plied between New York and Buenos Aires, stopping at the Barbados and way points. Because shipments of gold, sometimes valued at as much as $3,000,000, were often sent on her between Argentine and New York banks, she was referred to as "the Gold Ship." She was named for Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris, English actress...
Briefly, the old and often successful British method of repeating in a tone of horror, what someone else has frankly said, 'was applied, last week, to President Coolidge, very much as it was once applied to Wilhelm II. Only British Labor's Daily Herald went the whole hog and bluntly said...
...football, for during this year occurred the first Harvard-McGill game, the first contest of intercollegiate Rugby played in this country and the contest which led directly to the present intercollegiate game. The teams met on Jarvis Field, May 14, eleven men participating on each side. Following this year, often termed the most "momentous" of football history, Harvard met on the playing field with McGill and other Canadian universities for a number of years, previous to the first engagement with Yale at the beginning of the last quarter of the century...
While there is nothing indicating that this lineup is definitely that which will face the Eli in the Bowl tomorrow afternoon, there is no cause to believe that Coach Horween is contemplating any shifts. These often have proven themselves to be the strongest and most dependable combination all season, and the fact that they are all in condition and ready to meet the Blue is the best indication that the Crimson will put on the field one of the strongest elevens in a good many years...