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Then the news was spread that Dan Moody had failed to attain an absolute majority,* hence Mrs. Ferguson was not eliminated unless she desired to keep her prom ise. She decided not to do so, saying ambiguously "a challenge issued by Jim is not the acceptance of a challenge by Miriam." True, able politicians like onetime Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey considered the campaign closed, refused to have anything more to do with the Fergusons, and Texans generally were sated with Ku Klux Klan claptrap. What difference? Jim made a speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Outraged Public | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...Princeton, N. J., a score of ribald Juniors cheered the arrival of a Prom girl whose escort had chartered a buggy in her honor? imported it from still more rural districts at allegedly fabulous expense. "'THANKS for the Buggy Ride'! The Buggy, Buggy, Buggy Ride!" they caroled. "Lost all my pride! . . . Buggy-ridin'-lovin'! . . . I had a wonderful time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular Song | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...clock this evening will be the absolute closing hour for applications and box reservations for the Junior Prom. Office hours will be held from one o'clock until six o'clock in Randolph 48. All box reservations especially must be received by this hour. Couples on late applications will be assigned to boxes at the discretion of the committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Dance Applications Due | 3/5/1926 | See Source »

...Burke '27, chairman of the Junior Dance Committee, announces that in order to give those who are intending to go to the Junior Prom a last opportunity to secure their tickets, the time for applications is to be extended for two more days. This means that Friday night at six o'clock will be the last chance. Office hours will be held in Randolph 48 on Thursday from one o'clock to ten o'clock; and on Friday from one o'clock to six o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1927 Dance Tickets Still Sold | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

...following were appointed to the Prom Committee: John Randolph Burke of Milton, Chairman; Cecil Irton Wylde of Boston and Leo Francis Daley of Andover, vice-chairmen; Clement Duane Coady of West Newton; Henry Wilder Foote of Boston; Walter Rockwell Gherardi of Chevy Chase, Md.; Courtlandt Sherrington Gross of West Newton; Sarrell Everett Gleason of Evanston, III.; Samuel Haydock Hallowell of Readville; Carl Gustave Ture Lundell of Dorchester; John Schuyler Malick of Cincinnati, O.; Robert Allen Pinkerton of New York City; John Livermore Prescott of Norwood; Howard Slade of Cambridge; and Henry Sewall Woodbridge of Brookline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMITTEES APPOINTED FOR JUNIOR FUNCTIONS | 1/26/1926 | See Source »

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