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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people would have difficulty in naming a Senator from Michigan. James Couzens does not hide his person and his opinions beneath many bushels of reticence or modesty. But the name of the other Senator from Michigan? The slender, slightly stooped man of 75, with snow-white hair and academic features? The venerable schoolteacher who beat out Henry Ford as Michigan's "favorite son" at the National Democratic Convention four years ago? He joined his colleague on the front pages of the newspapers last week. While Senator Couzens was peevishly demanding Secretary Mellon's resignation, Senator Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, twice elected...
North Carolinians assembled in an auditorium at Charlotte one evening last week to see and hear what sort of person was Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, the woman whom Wyoming elected three years ago to fill out her deceased husband's term as Governor (1925-27). Mrs. Ross soon demonstrated her femininity. Down an aisle, terrified by the surrounding forest of North Carolina feet and ankles, scampered a mouse. "If I appear a bit disconcerted," shrilled Mrs. Ross, "It's because a woman may be a governor but she's always afraid of a mouse. If it comes...
This was a surprise to many a person who had believed Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, inspired. A college son of a village candy-store-keeper, he turned millionaire soon after his 1921 patent for Esquimo pies...
Yale's other contribution to an institution now regarded as a rival of the Blue was made in the person of Eleazar Wheelock, of the Class of 1733, first president of Dartmouth College. After his graduation Wheelock conducted a school in his home at Lebanon, Conn. In 1743 a Christian Mohegan Indian was admitted to the school and proved such a promising pupil that Wheelock decided to open a regular school to train Indians
Killers. This melodrama has a message. Act I (common-place): murder is committed in the back room of a speakeasy. Act II (excellent): a jury blunders through the process of finding the wrong person guilty. Act III (bewildering): prisoners jabber in jail, attempt a mass escape with much pistol spitting. Act IV (stupid): how to get an electric chair ready and a last-minute confession...