Word: recording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press of the U. S. discovered, to its admiration and amusement, that President & Mrs. Coolidge had made a Sunday morning motor trip to Bull Run battlefield in Virginia, returning for a 2 p. m. lunch at the White House. The matter went unreported for 24 hours-a record in the Coolidge administration...
George Holden Tinkham. He, a miraculous Republican, survived the Democratic landslide in Boston last month. He received only 333 votes less than Nominee Smith in his district and won his seat for the eighth consecutive time-a Boston record. Widely read and traveled, wealthy, a bachelor, he is in many ways an "ideal" Congressman. His large staff of secretaries is continually occupied doing things for his constituents. His correspondence is vast, perhaps 50,000 letters per annum. He was in Speaker Longworth's class at Harvard. He still takes pride in having been "the first American to fire...
...Chairman of the Public Lands Committee at the time of the second Stewart hearing was boyish, officious, inexperienced Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota. It was an easy matter for the defense to impress the jury with the incompetence with which the hearing was conducted. The official stenographic record was riddled with errors and omissions. Roll calls had not been taken. Questions had been suggested in the hearing room by newsgatherers and put by the Senators. Finally, the defense represented that, though the Committee had decided that eight of its 15 members should constitute a quorum, there were...
...during its first year, 880, 436 entered from public schools and 411 from preparatory schools, the remaining 33 being admitted from tutoring schools. Of the 436 entering from high schools, 102 made the Dean's List at the end of their first year and 60 turned in unsatisfactory records. This record is contrasted with that of the 411 preparatory school students, only 53 of whom attained Dean's List standing, and 92 of whom presented unsatisfactory records...
...status of men entering the College from tutoring schools is attested by the record made by such students in last year's Freshman Class. Forty-eight entered from tutoring schools last year, only two made the Dean's List, 20 received unsatisfactory records, and 12 had their connections with the University severed...