Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reason for Son Tyler's anger at the memory of President Lincoln is not far to seek. President John Tyler entered the White House in 1841 upon the death of President William Henry Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe. His hand-me-down administration, unlike that of Calvin Coolidge, contemporary prototype, was very unhappy. He had been placed upon the Whig ticket to catch Democratic votes in the South. His own Democratic tendencies, consistently displayed, made him hated by the party which he nominally headed. He retired from politics, embittered, when his term ended, and did not appear in public life...
Bombings. In Chicagoese, "pineapple" is a euphemism for an ugly, black, egg-shaped object known elsewhere as a hand-grenade. Since the first of the year they have been utilized 21 times by racketeers angry for one reason or another with fellow racketeers, politicians, bootleggers, gamblers. Last week "pineapples" exploded on the doorsteps of U. S. Senator Charles S. Deneen and Judge John A. Swanson. The results were mild for Chicago; no one was killed; only the fronts of two houses were blown to splinters...
...week, Chief of Police Hughes sent out 525 policemen in automobiles with orders to arrest not bombers, but U. S. Prohibition agents. Said he: "Bring in the whole gang. We'll see whether these roughnecks from the East can shoot up Chicago and get away with it." The reason for Chief of Police Hughes' sudden activity was that a prohibition agent had shot and wounded one William Beatty, political worker for Mayor Thompson, in a saloon...
This year, for the first time in several years, there will be an organized Freshman outfit. The schedule of the first-year men for this reason will be less extensive than that of the University players, but it will include matches with Dartmouth 1931 and, with Yale 1931. The latter match will be at Providence...
That is the reason that rights to buy B.A.N.A. stock are not negotiable or transferable. That is the reason why the Bancitaly Corp., with earnings of $30,000,000 last year, has just now declared a quarterly dividend of only 56¢ on its stock. The dividend might have been many times that sum. But paternal Mr. Giannini wants to make it "difficult for speculators to borrow money on his stocks...