Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after inauguration day, a bronze medal bearing the new Presi'dent's likeness. No effort or money is spared to reproduce the last freckle, pock, line, whisker; the exact crook of nose, areas of baldness, hair part, ear convulsions, etc., for the Presidential medals constitute the official record of what each President looked like while in office. Until about ten years ago, the medals were called "Indian peace medals," hundreds of them being distributed to chieftains at the beginning of every administration. Presidential medals can be obtained by anyone from the Treasury Department...
...inter-dormitory cross-country race yesterday was won by Gore Hall, whose runners took the first four places. R. A. Aldrich '30 lowered the course record of eight minutes set last fall by W. G. Dooley '30. He covered the one and seven tenths miles in seven minutes, 52 seconds
...Moses Smith narrative proved to be a real historical find, as it is the only record I have even seen of the 'Ironsides' engagement written by a seaman and an eye-witness...
...Rear Admiral, in his mad will-o wisp game with this long-dead Smith, resorted to various attempts to find the latter's book. After advertising without result in the query columns of the Boston Evening Transcript, he learned that the Library of Congress had no record of it, nor had the British Museum or any of the public libraries of the United States...
...half dozen speeches violently critical of Governor Smith's record at Albany, might, if anything, rather tend to strengthen his cause: or at least they would not be of more worth than a few double-edged remarks as to the functions of the Apostolic Delegate in Washington. The public knows that in spite of the assertions of Messrs Mills and Roosevelt New York is a well-run state, but a certain portion of the voting public will always exult a mention of the vague menace which might somehow be said to emanate from the Vatican...