Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hughes. After a week in Washington, President Coolidge had apparently convinced others of "those that know him" that only a now invisible emergency would make him contemplate candidacy. Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, for example, went on record as being quite convinced. Despatches from Pittsburgh said that W. L. Mellon, the Secretary's nephew and Republican State Chairman of Pennsylvania, had revealed a boom, with the Secretary at its centre, for Charles Evans Hughes, with whom Secretary Mellon lately crossed the Atlantic. Both the Messrs. Mellon quickly denied that there was any Mellonized boom for anyone at this juncture...
Billion-Dollar Service. Mr. New prefaced a survey of his Department's record and functions by telling what it costs to operate it now ?714 millions for the last fiscal year. Soon, he said, the U. S. Post Office will cost a billion per annum...
Last week at the National Singles Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, Long Island, William T. Tilden II tried for a record. He tried to match William A. Larned's list of seven national championships. Tilden has six. Last year Henri Cochet of France robbed him of his chance to tie R. D. Sears's record, seven successive championships; Rene Lacoste be- came 1926 champion...
...Louis, every year the Municipal Theatre Association presents twelve weeks of outdoor opera. This year there were record-breaking receipts despite the most wretched weather conditions encountered since 1919. Total attendance was over a half million. The repertory consisted of one opera (Tales of Hoffman) often included in the New York Metropolitan repertory and the following light operas: Robin Hood, Princess Pat, Sari, Song of the Flame, Red Mill, Rose Marie, The Mikado, The Dollar Princess, Katinka...
...following article dealing with the Language Requirements was written especially for the benefit of the Class of 1931 by G. G. Benedict '23, Assistant Dean in Charge of the Record Office...