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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life he has had. The four years of college are eliminated immediately. It is just such an experience as boys' work in Boston that the employer is looking for. Any one man's education can lack a good many things but it cannot lack some knowledge of the 90 percent of the people of the country who do not go to college. This is the cash value that social service offers...
...fall poll, however, Harding scored an emphatic victory over Cox. 2030 votes were cast, which represented considerably more than 50 percent of the members of the University. Harding received 1075 votes, Cox 805, Debs, the Socialist, 110, Christensen 31, and Watkins...
...percent of the total Faculty vote. He likewise ran high in the Business School, where La Follette was weakest...
...last night at the organization headquarters. W. C. Thompson 1 Dv., who was elected president of the newly formed organization, is just returned from a summer spent in New Bedford where he was engaged in the bitter struggle carried on by the New Bedford Textile Council against the ten percent wage cut which the textile bosses attempted to enforce last spring. He was arrested four times on the picket line. The officers who will compose the executive force are J. H. Weiss 3L, vice-president, and A. H. Kalish 2G, secretary. Weiss was prominent in undergraduate politics a few years...
Nominee Hoover could probably have merged the Prohibition Party into the G. O. P. by declaring specifically that one-half of one percent is, in his opinion, as strongly alcoholic as any U. S. beverage should ever be. But he made no such declaration, perhaps because he knew that about one-third of the Prohibition Party's vote is in California and likely to be Hooverish anyway; perhaps because he knew that the total Prohibition vote in 1924 was less than one-fifth of one percent of the total vote of the country...