Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Entertainment Committee, to look after the welfare of visiting teams are: Russell Robb Jr. '23, Concord; Cornelius Hawkins Hawes '23, of Fall River; Carly Vezey Chandler '23, of Dorchester; Eugene St. Rose Reynal '24, of New York City; Harry Ransom Davis '23, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert Paul Bullard '24, of Melrose Highlands; and Clark Hodder '25, of Newton...
...East Gloucester: Secretary--Treasurer, Morris Duare of Philadelphia, Pa., Clifton Powell Fordyee of Hot Springs, Ark., and Edwin Sibley Webster Jr., of Chestnut Hill; Student Council Members (five to be elected). Henry Wadsworth Clark of Ketchikan. Alaska, Bernard Sheridan Cogan of Stoneham, Charles Kimball Cummings Jr. of Boston, Harry Ransom Davls of Pittsburgh, Pa., Albert Hamilton Gordon of Brookline, Cornelious Hawkins Hawes of Fall River, Alexander Haven Ladd of Milion, Francis Rounillard of Chicopee Falls and Marion Wesley Self of Abilene, Texeas...
...American. Of course we are a more or less self-sustaining people, but we do want a dignified policy. We want Americans to feel that they have about them the protecting arm of the United States. We read quite often now of Americans carried away and held for ransom and sometimes we think of the experience of another president years ago. When a North African sultan carried off an American citizen and declared that he wanted ransom, the answer was "We want--alive or the sultan dead." And in a very short time we had--alive. There is nothing more...