Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hell" to get action on his resolution. Two days later the Privileges & Elections Committee unanimously reported it out and, a day after, the Senate unanimously adopted it. Vice President Curtis promptly named a special investigating committee of five Senators: California's Johnson, Maryland's Goldsborough, Missouri's Patterson (Republicans), and Washington's Dill, New York's Wagner (Democrats). To finance the inquiry into 35 senatorial campaigns the Senate allowed $100,000. The committee was almost immediately rendered headless by the resignation of Senator Johnson as chairman. His official excuse: "My time is so wholly occupied with my duties that...
...choosing an inscription for the new building that is to house their New York Daily News, gumchewers' tabloid with the largest U. S. circulation (1.300.000 ).* Publishers Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick turned to Lincoln, not to Barnum. Curious crowds stood in front of the new News building last week, eyeing a procession of laborers, beggars, children, flappers, photographers marching in light relief across the building's grey-green granite facade over the tabloidally cryptic excerpt: "He made so manv of them...
...number three, R. L. Tower '31 at number four, D. M. Frame '32 at number five, and K. B. Daggett '31 at number six. The doubles teams are not yet chosen, but will probably be as follows: Hill and Daggett, Breese and Ingraham, and Tower and A. W. Patterson...
...Professor R. E. Spiller of Swarthmore College; "History of English Literature from 1700 to 1740" by Professor J. W. Draper of West Virginia University; "The Romantic Period in Music" and "Musical Appreciation" by Professor R. D. Welch of Smith College: "Modern Developments in Physics" by Professor R. A. Patterson of Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute; "The Philosophy of Evolution" by Professor E. G. Spaulding of Princeton University: "The British Commonwealth of Nations" and "The Recent History of England, 1878-1930" by Professor L. M. Larson of the University of Illinois; "History of the Thirteen Colonies to 1760" by Professor T. J. Wertenbaker...
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