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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition. During the presidential campaign, President-Elect Hoover suggested that a committee be appointed to study and report upon Prohibition. Two resolutions dealing with this committee were introduced in the Senate. Senator Jones (Dry) of Washington, suggesting the appointment of a Senatorial Committee, Senator Edge (Wet) of New Jersey suggesting the appointment of nine civilians, to be named, after March 4, by Mr. Hoover. Later, Senator Jones agreed with Senator Edge that the membership of the committee should be left to Mr. Hoover's decision, thereby virtually withdrawing the senatorial committee idea...
Second of last week's vital pronouncements was the issuance at Berlin?one month late?of the annual report of Seymour Parker Gilbert, who succeeded Owen D. Young in 1924 as Agent General of Reparations...
...amusing story of Dunster's presidency was handed down for two centuries among his descendants. The President was at Concord, visiting his relatives, when the word came that the College boys had, literally, raised the Devil. Prexy saddled his horse and hastened back to Cambridge to find that the report was true. The students were thoroughly frightened at something--whether a practical joke or a bit of black magic, the reader can best decide. Whatever it may have been, the President's remedy was masterly. Emptying his powder horn on the Hall floor, he solemnly exorcised the Evil...
Nine hundred Freshmen have elected 14 varieties of winter sports, compared to 852 last year, according to a report made public yesterday at Wadsworth House...
Booksellers everywhere have had a welcome opportunity to forget their depressing post-Christmas trade. A new light of encouragement has been cast upon their slackened business. Out of the noise and traffic of a materialistic metropolis has come the report that literature still commands enormous prices. For the purchase of valuable collections at public auction, buyers were not found wanting, even though the bidding ran unusually high...