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...days after election Democratic House Leader John Nance Garner of Texas received that telegram. His red cowboy face twisted up into an even redder knot of merriment. "N. L." was, of course, his great & good friend Nicholas Longworth. Republican Speaker of the House. The "car" was the dark blue Packard limousine (1928 model) assigned by the Government to the House's presiding officer. Because the car would pass to him if the Democrats should control the House and elect him Speaker, Congressman Garner had often joshed Speaker Longworth about "our car." To Speaker Longworth he telegraphed this reply...
...Philip Ben Greet and his Company of English players will give, at the invitation of the Department of English, two productions in Sanders Theatre this winter, it was announced yesterday by F. C. Packard Jr. '20, Professor of Public Speaking. The first quarto of "Hamlet" will be given on Monday, January 12, and on Tuesday, January 13 "As You Like It" will be presented...
...bought a secondhand, 93-ton yacht. With great ceremony he had re-christened it the Barbados after the island of his birth. He bought also two gaudy Packard limousines, seven pianos, which he put aboard his ship. He hired a captain, a crew, a chauffeur named Willie. With this outfit he would return to Barbados and make himself a king of trade. Last week he put to sea for the 1,500-mi. voyage home...
...hours. When three of them died, they were slipped overboard by the others. The storm was still raging when the remaining five were rescued by Clyde Line's S. S. Henry R. Mallory. Emanuel Valverde, his wife, Willie the chauffeur and two seamen stayed with the Barbados, the two Packard limousines, the seven pianos and Emanuel Valverde's dream? at the bottom...
...meeting F.C. Packard '20 assistant professor of Public Speaking will address the candidates for the Freshman teams on the subject of the prizes offered Freshmen in speaking during the year...