Word: oswego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson (above Albany). Partly because this canal has been a very expensive white elephant, partly because it would profit greatly from an increased volume of traffic through its heart, partly because it saw the nation's need, New York lately offered to turn its canal over...
...only 33 miles of "restricted" navigation. 4) That there might at times be shortages of water with which to operate the New York canal. 5) That the cost of the New York route is four times as great as that of the St. Lawrence route: $560,000,000 from Oswego to Manhattan plus some $125,000,000 to $155,000,000 for building a canal around Niagara Falls on the U. S. side in order to make the entire route stay in the U. S.-totaling perhaps $661,000,000-whereas the St. Lawrence development would cost only...
...Brockton; Stanley Jasspon Kuaits of Worcester; Chester Tevis Lane of Richmond, Surrey, England; Harold Joseph Mallison of New York City; Antonio Ortizy Ortiz of Hottiacao Porto Rico; Oscar Moore Shaw of Washington, D. C.; Elliot Barker Spalding of Cambridge; Jule Elias Stocker of Detroit, Mich.; Kirke Marshall White of Oswego, N. Y.; Dean Earl Wood of Kansas City, Mo.; Redmond Stephens Wright of Chicago...
...object of the plan is to destroy party lines and political rings. It was invented some years ago by one Dr. Charles C. P. Clark of Oswego, N. Y. By it the qualified voters of a city would be divided into regional groups of 700. From each of these groups, 70 voters would be chosen by lot to meet and, in a sort of town meeting, to select an alderman. The elected aldermen choose a mayor and city officials. Everybody serves until he is recalled, which happens when petitions are presented for calling new meetings...
...University Register announced last night the election of Donald King Barnes '27 of Far Rockaway, N. Y., to the editorial department; and of Carl Thomas Crosby '25 of Allston, Williams Swift Martin 2 E.S. of Washington, D. C., and Kirke Marshall White '26 of Oswego, N. Y., to the business department. These elections are subject to the approval of the Student Council...